Without a doubt, Mickey Mouse has a greater number of loyal followers than any other cinema star in the world. To say he has more millions of fans than Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Maurice Chevalier, and Marie Dressler all together seems preposterous until you see the avalanche of letters this wistful little chap brings to Hollywood. They have topped eight thousand a week which is a lot of mail.
Only the chanting, twirly-tailed Little Pigs seem to loom as rivals to Mickey's popularity. But Mickey really doesn't begrudge sharing the spotlight with them. For, after all, coming as they do from the Disney studio, aren't they of the same ink, under the film? And, besides, Mickey knows that long after the shivers and chuckles aroused by the Big Bad Wolf and the piglets are forgotten, he will still be greeted by shrieks of delight wherever young and old flock to motion pictures. […]
