The James Logan Courier

By Steve Herman, VOA News
Tokyo

Japan is celebrating the return home of troops after two-and-a-half years in Iraq without a single casualty. The controversial mission was seen as a test of Japan's long policy of pacifism.

First up is The Cobweb Hotel by Max Fleischer. Newly-wed flies go to stay at the Cobweb Hotel which is run by a hungry spider. Animation by David Tendlar and William Sturm. Music by Sammy Timberg and Bob Royhberg. Produced in 1936.


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Next is "A Day at the Zoo," a Merry Melody cartoon and, in the words of one viewer, "a classic Tex Avery screwball production."
The hijinks involve cartoon characters spending a silly day at the Kalama Zoo. Produced in 1939.


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Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, more commonly known as Horace Walpole, (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), was a politician, writer, architectural innovator and namesake of his cousin Horatio Nelson.

Read Horace Walpole's book, The Castle of Otranto, one of nine of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.


Horace Walpole