GREAT BRITAIN: The Mad Cocktail Party

"'No room! No room!" the Hatter and the March Hare cried out "when they saw Alice coming. "There's plenty of room," said Alice indignantly, and she sat down. . . .

In a well-meant campaign to boost their own fast-growing film industry, many of London's critics have long been inhospitable to Hollywood exports. Last week, even before he had arrived in London, they told Walt Disney there was no room. "I am getting quite sick," wrote the Daily Herald's Chanticleer, "of all the publicity about Disney and his team of whimsical technicians, sailing...

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