"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" visit Lux Theater Monday
The Story behind the Cover
An elderly gentleman in Oklahoma saw "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" four times.
A young couple in Chicago affectionately call their expected first child "Dopey."
A pair of fond Negro parents in Alabama named their piccaninny "Snow White."
You probably know someone who makes you think of Sneezy sneezing or Doc stammering or Bashful blushing.
And you'll very probably be at your radio Monday night when "Lux Radio Theater" presents "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," with substantially the same cast that portrayed the voices on the screen.
You and I and millions of others have become Snow White-conscious. The little princess and her seven tiny companions – especially Dopey – have become institutional, like matrimony, Santa Claus and taxes. We accept the characters as humans, and call them by their first names just as if we were comrades.
It is easy to drift into extravagant terms when speaking of this masterpiece of Walt Disney's, the modem Aladdin, for it is one movie production that deserves the application of the movie bromide "stupendous" if the word means anything at all.
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