Jay Waverly North is most remembered for his lead role in the CBS sitcom
Dennis the Menace which aired from 1959 to 1963. Jay was picked for the
lead role in the show by Hank Ketcham, creator of the Dennis the Menace
comic strip. Approximately five hundred hopefuls auditioned for the part. 

Jay North (as Dennis) shown with show co-stars Gloria Henry and
Herbert  Anderson who play his parents, Alice and Henry Mitchell.

Flowers and Trees is a 1932 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney. It
was released to theaters by United Artists on July 30, 1932. The short was the first commercially released film to be produced in the full Technicolor process. Flowers
and Trees was a commercial and critical success, winning the first Academy Award
for Animated Short Subjects.

“The Man of a Thousand Voices,” Mel Blanc, who grew up in Portland,
Oregon, is regarded as one of the most influential people in the voice-
acting industry.  

The Wise Little Hen is a Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies cartoon, based on
the fairy tale The Little Red Hen. The cartoon marked the debut of Donald
Duck. It was released on June 9, 1934.

Mel Blanc (born Melvin Jerome Blank) was born in San Francisco and grew up
in Portland, Oregon where he attended Lincoln High School. He changed is last
name to ‘Blanc’ at the age of 16. While still in his teens, Blanc started his career
as a voice actor on KGW radio in 1927 and produced and hosted his own show
on KEX radio beginning in 1933. Blanc moved to Southern California in 1935, 
eventually working on CBS and NBC radio programs, including Jack Benny in
the late 1930s and later on Benny’s TV show. Blanc is best known for providing
voices for classic Warner Brothers cartoons beginning in 1936. Many of his
characters included Bugs Bunny, porky Pig, Daffy Duck, and Tweety Bird just
to name a few.