8 — The Prince George Citizen — Monday, July 24, 1989

Entertainment THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON

W ALT DISNEY'S PETER PAN 'Wendy' has fond memories By JAM IE PORTMAN sed up in fancy costumes, and re­ attend an ordinary school, “ it Grade 3 pupils about her childhood Southam News garded as one might a would have been an impossible at Disney. But during the last reis­ If -Levine favorite uncle. back and forth arrangement.” sue of Alice, one of her youngsters wants to relive her childhood this “ Walt Disney wasn’t the remote Her voice isn’t only preserved on recognized her voice. summer, she need only pay a re­ kind of person you might expect the film soundtracks. Visitors to “ This little girl came up to me turn visit to Walt Disney’s Peter the head of a studio to be. He Disneyland also experience it and said, ‘Miss Beaumont, did you Pan. would pop by a lot to see how whenever they take the Peter Pan ever do Alice In Alice In Wonder­ Back in the early , when things were going, which created or Alice In Wonderland rides. In land? I know it was you, but my Disney was filming the animated this real sense of cam araderie fact, only few years ago, she re­ mother doesn’t believe me.’” classic, she was just entering her which made us all feel very close corded additional dialogue for an Surprised but pleased, Beau­ teens and providing the voice for and very much a part of the pro­ expanded version of the Alice at­ mont-Levine admitted she was the Wendy Darling, the London girl duction.” traction. voice of Alice, and then in a class­ who befriends Peter Pan, the boy London-born, she came to North After Peter Pan was released in room discussion started explaining who never grows up. America when a child of eight. It 1953, she returned to regular the technique of animation to her Bobby Driscoll, the popular child was during a stay in Canada that schooling and decided to be a pupils. \WjUBtna, star who provided Peter’s voice, an MGM talent scout spotted her teacher — but even in the class­ Now each year, she and her pu­ went into a career decline after the and signed her to a contract. room she uses her knowledge of pils work on a major classroom "Wait a minute! Say that again, D oris!... film’s release in 1953 and died in She appeared in three MGM animation as a teaching aid. project — the making of a simple You know, the part about ’If only we had 1968. films, including On An Island With She doesn’t normally tell her animation film. some means of climbing down."’ But Wendy is alive and well and You and Courage Of Lassie and teaching elementary school in the then won Disney’s nod to be the San Fernando Valley, only a short voice of Alice and later Wendy. W atch for the 7 ITWA5 THAT GIRL AND IF YOU distance from the studio lot which DO YOU I DON'T KNOW..MAYBE it's She had to assist the animators A6 AIN..SHE WANTS WANT, I'LL BRIN 6 provides her with some of her hap­ NEW THINK I A TRICK ..MAYBE YOU SHOULD visually as well as vocally. YOU TO MEET HER. TAKE YOUR DOG ALONG.. MY SWORD CANE piest childhood memories. “ They would make a storyboard OVER AT THE MALL SHOULD7 “ Coming back to the studio now of a particular sequence which TC creates wonderful nostalgic feel­ helped me understand what it was ings,’’ the English-born Beaumont- all about. Then I would go and re­ noodles Levine commented in a telephone cord the dialogue assigned me, and FRESH PASTA ANO PEROGY HOUSE interview from . then there would be a day of live- As for Peter Pan, which has just action shooting where I would OPENING SOON been released for the fifth time dress up in costume and using a In the old Saveco Bldg. throughout North America, "it will few simple props act out the Wen­ always be something very special dy part for the camera. to me. sssssssssss “ The animators would study it, “ After a few years you tend to examining the way I moved and forget different things, which the way the costume moved or means that you’re seeing it fresh W A G E R S 1 flowed and start drawing the char­ each time. And of course if you’re acter.” an adult you see things a little dif­ ■8 CASINO f Today, she can watch the ani­ # At Holiday Inn • 5L ferently than you did as a young­ JJ1 George St. It« mated Wendy and still recall some ster. « 3 of the movements she did for the “ Now I look at it and I see it as JH July 2 1 ,2 2 , 23 ® cameras back in the early 1950s. a true classic.” CQ Springwood Community During her three years at the Back when she was a youngster Disney studio she attended school named Kathryn Beaumont, giving in a special classroom under a spe­ voice to Wendy and in an earlier Super Liberal Rules! cially assigned teacher. assignment to the title role of Alice “ It was very wise to do it this in Wonderland, the studio was a OPEN 7 DAYS A way. The way the animation proc­ magical place. ess worked, you could be recording WEEK 6 p.m.-2 a.m. THS PACiFiC O ceM Tliere, she made friends with the UZXH& vVEU-, vVB CAN ECZATC* OUfl for a couple of days and then be 15 THi‘£» animators, attended school on the MAP j SEE THAT I PLAN5 EOg THAT off for the week.” Had she tried to ssssssss sss lot when she wasn’t working, dres- W ith THE ibtfartAMAYfcNKg£S. ~ r

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