The Peace Conference<\/strong> (4\/26\/35). Most likely inspired by the Geneva Disarmament Conference of 1932-34 (though another, the Chaco Peace Conference, began in 1935 in Buenos Aires). A peace conference is attended by both human and animal delegates and human world leaders (including a recognizable Mahatma Ghandi), below a chirping chorus of peace doves above the entrance doorway. A hat check window serves new duty as an attendant instructs attendees, \u201cCheck your pistols, guns and knives, hand grenades and 45\u2019s.\u201d Inside a first meeting room, delegates gather around a dog in a chef\u2019s hat, who slices bits and pieces off a large globe like he was carving a roast. \u201cOne for you, and one for you, and share this one among you two.\u201d<\/p>\nSharing is not a normal part of these delegates\u2019 vocabulary, and in no time the assembly is \u201cduke\u201ding it out atop the conference table. The roof of the building bounces and wobbles from the fighting inside, and even the doves fly the coop, taking their \u201cPeace\u201d banner with them. Amidst this chaos arrives at the front door an old-fashioned World War I-style tank, which rolls through the front door and smashes down an interior wall to get to the delegates. Inside the tank rides Krazy Kat, wearing formal top hat and delegate\u2019s wardrobe. \u201cGentlemen, please! This fighting must cease!\u201d Producing what appears to be an ordinary rifle, he continues, \u201cThis is my gun, to bring you world peace!\u201d The delegates scoff at this intruder. Krazy realizes a demonstration is in order, and loads his rifle with a series of special bullets, marked \u201cCrooner Tunes\u201d, \u201cHot Music\u201d, \u201cWaltz Time\u201d, and \u201cJazz Band\u201d. A first shot into the middle of the battling delegates produces, in person, Bing Crosby, who croons a few \u201cBoo Boo Boo Boo\u201ds and instantly has the delegates spellbound and singing along. Krazy ventures deeper into the convention hall. In a back room waits an assemblage of actual world leaders, who watch a large world globe as it bulges and erupts on one side into a miniature no-man\u2019s land battlefield with two opposing armies taking rifle pot-shots at each other. Krazy, peeking in through a keyhole, fires another shot through the hole, making a direct hit on the miniature battlefield. In its midst appears a miniature version of clarinetist Ted Lewis, who breaks into a solo in his traditional hot-cornball style. The soldiers start blowing on their rifles, magically converting them into clarinets too. The world leaders are all satisfied, and break into a song of happy cooperation. Gazing at all of this from space is the war god of Mars, who takes it as everyone neglecting him.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>He leaps from one planet to the other, landing in the middle of the conference. Krazy attempts to stand his ground, taking a shot at Mars\u2019s shoulder. On it appears Rudy Vallee, with his trademark megaphone. After only a few notes, Mars, in complete disdain of this effort, flicks Vallee off his shoulder as if he were a fly. Krazy tries another shot, producing another crooner (Russ Columbo?). Mars almost seems to be won over, but gets hold of himself and flicks the intruder off again. Time for the big guns, thinks Krazy, and fires off a volley of shots at Mars\u2019s chest, ultimately knocking him down. Atop his chest appears the entire Paul Whiteman jazz orchestra! The leaders and delegates link hands and form a circle around the fallen Mars and the Whiteman band. Mars finally comes to, but finds the band\u2019s effect too powerful, and sings along with the song\u2019s final chorus as the scene irises out on a happy note. Songs:<\/strong> \u201cThe Delegates\u2019 Song\u201d, and \u201cA Happy Family\u201d, a number which De Nat would reuse a short few months later as nearly the entire score of another Krazy of the same title about a disastrous family reunion.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The Peace Conference<\/strong> (4\/26\/35). Most likely inspired by the Geneva Disarmament Conference of 1932-34 (though another, the Chaco Peace Conference, began in 1935 in Buenos Aires). A peace conference is attended by both human and animal delegates and human world leaders (including a recognizable Mahatma Ghandi), below a chirping chorus of peace doves above the entrance doorway. A hat check window serves new duty as an attendant instructs attendees, \u201cCheck your pistols, guns and knives, hand grenades and 45\u2019s.\u201d Inside a first meeting room, delegates gather around a dog in a chef\u2019s hat, who slices bits and pieces off a large globe like he was carving a roast. \u201cOne for you, and one for you, and share this one among you two.\u201d<\/p>\n