WHICH is the more popular creation, "Mickey Mouse" or the "Three Little Pigs"? That depends on individual taste, of course. Then, again, Mickey has had a long start over the chubby little pigs. He has been known and enthusiastically received all over the world for years. But the furore of welcome which has greeted the "Three Little Pigs" in the United States and elsewhere is making Disney a bit jealous for the queer little fantastic mouse that first brought him fame.
Few people indeed who enjoy these animated cartoons ever stop to think of the manifold processes which go to their making. And the man who originated them, and is still their director-in-chief, is little known except by name.
As he appears in the accompanying photographs he is a good-looking man in the early thirties. He has been described as a "young edition of Adolphe Menjou." but his ancestry is different. His father is Irish-Canadian, and his mother is of German descent. Physically he does not suggest a particular racial type, being tall, but fairly slight, with brown hair, which is getting a little thin on the top, and dark brown eyes.
His favorite sport is polo. He does not care for stage plays, which rather vex him because they seem to miss possibilities.
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