Tweedledum and Tweedledee Agreed to have a battle; For Tweedledum said Tweedledee Had spoiled his nice new rattle.
Walt Disney's animated color film Alice in Wonderland (RKO Radio) is booked into Manhattan's Criterion Theater for its U.S, premiére Aug, 1. Six days earner, Producer Lou Bunin's French-made puppet & live-action Alice in Wonderland (released through Souvaine Selective Pictures) is slated for its U.S, opening in two of Exhibitor Harry Brandt's Manhattan movie houses, Last week, after months of ominous rumbling, Disney and Souvaine entered into battle. Claimed Disney: Bunin's "inferior" Alice would deceive the public into going to see the wrong picture, thus spoiling his nice new Alice"s box-office take. In good Tweedledee fashion, Souvaine retorted: Contrariwise!
The battle was joined in Manhattan's district court, where Disney and RKO sued Souvaine and Brandt to restrain them from unveiling Bunin's Alice and cashing in on the Disney picture. Souvaine countered that it was "happy" Disney had finally seen fit to bring the squabble to a head. Said President Henry Souvaine (Time, March 12): "The time has arrived for a properly constituted court of law to determine the legality or illegality of Mr. Disney's efforts over many years to destroy Mr. Bunin's property."
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