An interviewer, like a cat, may look at a king. But, fortunately, he doesn't have to confine himself to such uninteresting people. He may look at a mouse, too, if he approaches warily and doesn't make a noise like a cat. So, for a change from kings and queens of moviedom, yesterday we intewiewed Mickey Mouse.
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Though only 2 years old he appears in more pictures every year than does any other star, and he is so popular that already there are hundreds of Mickey Mouse clubs in England, Germany and many other countries, besides some thousands of them in this country.
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"How did you overcome your natural fear of cats and dogs?" we inquired.
"It's a matter of inherent cunning." he confessed. "My quadruple great-grandparents were the one pair of mice to escape the Pied Piper of Hamelin. To do that they had to learn to do many wonderful and dillicult things. That hereditary lore is the prized possession of my family. I am able now to do anything of which a good artist can draw a picture."
That A. E. F. Spirit
Just after the World War a boy who had valiantly helped fight the Battle of Paris with the Red Cross got a youth's-size job with a commercial advertising agency in Kansas City. He didn't know much about art, but had an original gift for drawing cartoony pictures of animals. And he had the amazing nerve and gall with which the A.E.F. gifted most of those within its sphere of influence. Though still in his teens, he wasn't content to make layouts for commercial advertising. He went to a local theater manager named Newman and suggested that he do some original cartoon stories for the screen. The result was some "short subjects" for children which were called modern fairytales – Goldie Locks and the three bears and such things as animated cartoons.
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