على الرغم من المخاوف بشأن إصابته، عاد فيليكس في 27 يوليو، وسجل هدفًا واحدًا وصنع آخر في مباراة الفوز بنتيجة 7—3 على ، بينما تم اختياره أيضًا.
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In 1954, Messmer retired from the Felix daily newspaper strips, and his assistant the creator of took over.
Mendelssohn remained dissatisfied with the work and did not allow publication of the score.
October 2011 DVD releases include Presenting Felix the Cat from Bosko Video; Felix! By the late 1920s, with the arrival of , Felix's success was fading.
Larry Todd noted in 2007, in the context of the impending bicentenary of Mendelssohn's birth, "the intensifying revival of the composer's music over the past few decades", and that "his image has been largely rehabilitated, as musicians and scholars have returned to this paradoxically familiar but unfamiliar European classical composer, and have begun viewing him from new perspectives.