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[00:-1.00]Does Mickey Mouse have a beard? No.
[00:-2.00]Does this mean that French men seeking work with the Disney organization
[00:-3.00]must shave off their moustaches too? It depends.
[00:-4.00]A labor inspector took the Disney organization to court this week,
[00:-5.00]contending that the company's dress and appearance code —
[00:-6.00]which bans moustaches, beards, excess weight,
[00:-7.00]short skirts and fancy stockings —
[00:-8.00]offends individual liberty and violates French labor law.
[00:-9.00]The case is an illustration of some of the delicate cultural issues the company
[00:10.00]faces as it gets ready to open its theme park 20 miles (32 kilometers)
[00:11.00]east of Paris in five months' time.
[00:12.00]The Disney management,
[00:13.00]which is assembling what it calls a "cast" of 12,000 to run the theme park,
[00:14.00]argues that all employees, from bottle washers to the president,
[00:15.00]are similar to actors who have to obey rules about appearance.
[00:16.00]Anyway, a company spokesman says,
[00:17.00]no one has yet put his moustache before a job.
[00:18.00]As one new "cast member" put it: "You must believe in what you are doing,
[00:19.00]or you would have a terrible time here."
[00:20.00]But what do people think of Euro Disney?
[00:21.00]People everywhere are wondering whether Europeans
[00:22.00]would like the American recreation.
[00:23.00]For all its concern about foreign cultural invasion
[00:24.00]and its defense against the pollution of the French language by English words,
[00:25.00] France's Socialist government has been untroubled
[00:26.00]about putting such a huge American symbol on the doorstep of the capital
[00:27.00]and has been more concerned about its social effect.
[00:28.00]It made an extraordinary series of tax
[00:29.00]and financial concessions to attract the theme park here
[00:30.00]rather than let it go to sunny Spain.
[00:31.00]The theme park itself will be only part of a giant complex of housing,
[00:32.00] office,and resort developments stretching far into the next century,
[00:33.00]including movie and television production facilities.
[00:34.00]As part of its deal with the Disney organization,
[00:35.00]the government is laying on and paying for new highways,
[00:36.00]an extension of Paris's regional express railway
[00:37.00]and even a direct connection for the high speed TGV railway to the Channel Tunnel.
[00:38.00]The TGV station is being built in front of the main entrance of Euro Disneyland,
[00:39.00]and is scheduled to come into service in 1994.
[00:40.00]If Euro Disneyland succeeds —
[00:41.00]where theme parks already in France have so far failed —
[00:42.00]a second and even a third park is likely to be built by the end of the century.
[00:43.00]Financial experts say that Euro Disneyland,
[00:44.00]the first phase of which is costing an estimated $3.6 billion,
[00:45.00]is essential to Disney's overall fortunes,
[00:46.00]which have been hit by competition and declining attendance in the United States.
[00:47.00]French intellectuals have not found many kind things to say about the project.
[00:48.00]The kids, however, will probably never notice.
[00:49.00]Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Peter Pan, and Pinocchio
[00:50.00]all come from European fairy tales or stories
[00:51.00]and are as familiar to children here as they are in the United States.
[00:52.00]To a French child Mickey is French. To an Italian kid he is Italian.
[00:53.00]The Disney management is stressing this tradition in an apparent response
[00:54.00]to suggestions that it is culturally insensitive.
[00:55.00]Although the concept of the theme park is closely based
[00:56.00]on the original Magic Kingdom in California and Walt Disney World in Florida,
[00:57.00]"Euro Disneyland will be unique in a manner appropriate to its European home,"
[00:58.00] the company says.
[00:59.00]"The legends and fairy tales which come from Europe
[-1:00.00]figure prominently in the creative development of the theme park."