[I was scanning e-bay for photos of Walt and stumbled across this. The photo itself is nothing, but the story on the reverse is odd.]
More details about this story, following the two posts below.
http://disneybooks.blogspot.com/2013/02/you-may-remember-post-from-few-years.html
http://disneybooks.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-picked-up-last-week-copy-of-spanish.html
I found the following July 4. 1933 Oakland Tribune story in my newspaper archive:
ReplyDeleteIsle of Man cat
The Governor-General of the Isle of Man, (who, if he’s at all on to his job, ought to be very, very dignified), received the following cable from Los Angeles yesterday: ‘Cat arrived okay. A million thanks. Where is his tail?’
Walt Disney, the cartoonist fellow whose characters animate movie screens, has received from the Governor-General one pedigreed Manx cat through the English counsel here. Accompanying the cat was a note (and a bit undignified one would gather): ‘I am Maxine. The prospect of meeting Mickey Mouse tickles me to death.’
The tail must be in transit unless, as has been rumored, Manx cats have no tails.”