Evening star., 1948-07-25
Disney's Audience
It's the Least Inhibited, Most Exuberant
One Meets in the Theater
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By Joy Cormody

Walt Dsnes competitors unlucky group
they live in Hollywood and not get chance Dney pictures
with the latter unspecazd audiences
such an experience especially about the Disney holds
his public
example the first showing opening day. The best place
house as Keith's in city such Washington.
Both Keiths Washington pretty away
capital the aine and the Chief
there for Disney competitor who afford the trip
Disney They
reviews they do there things
large percentage of them cannot read and only know another
Disney they say
much To this degree adults useful to Dsns best audience
but otherwise groWnups pretty much Of nuisance.
Audience Is Dramatic Too
Obviously they (the adults cannot with the fgmens
of Dneys Imagination fawns tugboats
preferable his
audience In this makes this audience dramatic
the picture An adult critic could be diverted it that might
even forget to notice the antics on the
Disneys first audience opening day the least
inhibited that gathers youngest
themselves infants thereabots they
hungry They Justify From eight Of them
themselves similarly simultaneously incredible
to hear in theater You will hear picture
Those just above the their
of expressing their disdn pogrammng
series OF short subjects before the feature Each time OF these
showed before Melody Wednesday morning it was
greeted with This happened
reel directed children showing sports
are useful in developing sound minds and healthy bodies
an audience that indifferent to the soundness Of both its mind
and body.
1t wanted Disney and groan
got Disney.
A Heroes
When it got him. flashed upon the
let those conquerng
the quality of Dsney latest work
Melody Time would be wonderful had to be wonderful There
could not be the slightest doubt about
birds and prancng horses didn't t9
What could count that? Patiently least
all the normal etiquette Of the theater.
Normal etiquette reared its ignorant critic
ielt shoulder mddleaged
an 8-year-old girl standing beside his seat
Sorry, said the critic, "but there's
"Oh that laughed the grandmother She'll
AS matter Of fact "she" also the lap.
1t Is OF course the custom
at Disney pictures Moreover one except
the nsuferabe enjoys it.
Enjoying it is the only enjoy Disney
picture Otherwise, would be annoying instance
Of MELODY Freddy Martins band
plays Flight of the Bumble-Bee"
Donald Delayed.
The child breathing the did not like Rmkv-
koakof and his silly
Donald Duck and she off
substitute
Where and when no one answered
her-the nasty bee overs-she took with the
management.
That she kept screaming dudgeon, Donald Duck"
NO one was foolish enough with
enough to debate with females Donald
DUCK did show OF Every felt better of all
the girl who wanted Donald Duck This Donald himself probably
unaware of the he people Gable would learn
from him. much
Sheer beauty dull stuff to Disnys and the master
himself could find this out by observing aroused bv
the Trees sequence in melody time and pastel
coongs bore the wonderful
gathered there to reve in bluebrd the indeed
What Dineys first audience Donald ROGERS
and rabbits and things
Heaven, how it