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A few days ago the sad news reached me that Virginia Davis, "Walt Disney's First Star" had passed away. I finally got a moment to find the following picture, taken at the opening of the Walt Disney Archives Library on the second floor of the Frank Wells building, April 30th, 2007. From the left, Kathryn Beaumont Levine, voice of both Alice in Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Wendy in Peter Pan (1953), then Virginia Davis McGee and lastly, myself. I thought it was fun to have my picture taken with two ladies who both played Alice. Since Mrs. McGee, Virginia Davis, was Walt's star in 1923, I had hoped to see her get proper recognition at the D23 Expo next month, but this was not meant to be... << Click to enlarge!

When Ub Iwerks reached a perfect 600 score, he stopped bowling - we learned this from his granddaughter in the book and film about him. But who else was playing? Here is the score for the matches played by the Disney bowling teams at the North Hollywood Bowling Center on June 5th, 1946. Ub was still playing, and with a high score of 478 he was above average, but the individual series winner was Jack Parr with 581 points. The LIL-TOOTS did best for the team series. Notice the fact that there were 13 teams of five players, one of six, making a total of 71 players! Let's have a look at who was playing... On the DUCKS we find Ub Iwerks, as well as Virginia Clemens from the Process Lab and Irene Kuhnert who at the time was in 1A-16; The MICKEYS have Ham and Frances Luske, and John Walker. In 1946, there were 2 John Walkers, one in 1G-1 and one in 1G-14; The DUMBOS have assistant director Mike Holoboff, Bob Power from 1E-8 and Joe Mickey from 1A-15; The LIL-TOOTS have an interesting