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Motion Picture Reviews
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MOTION • PICTURE • REVIEWS
Published, monthly by
THE WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY CLUB
LOS ANGELES BRANCH
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
Mrs. Palmer Cook, General Co-Chairman Mrs. John Vruwink, General Co-Chairman Mrs. Chester A. Ommanney, Preview Chairman Mrs. Charles Booth Assistant Preview Chairmen Mrs. Thomas B. Williamson
EDITORS
Mrs. Palmer Cook Mrs. J. Allen Davis Mrs. George Ryall
Mrs. Walter Van Dyke Mrs. John Vruwink
Address all communications to The Women’s University Club, 9+3 South Hoover St., Los Angeles, Calif. Advance Supplement is published and mailed approximately the 15th of each month.
10c Per Copy $1.00 Per Year
Vol. VI DECEMBER, 1934 No. 6
NOTICE
The Editors regret that limited space precludes the publication of the children’s book list which is prepared annually by the California State Division of the A. A. U. W. Copies may be secured for ten cents each in lots of less than ten, seven cents a copy in larger quantities from the International Relations office of the American Association of University Women, 1634 Eye Street, Washington, D.C. The list gives explanatory notes on the books which are classified as to age suitability and will be an invaluable assistance in choosing children’s reading matter throughout the year.
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FEATURE FILMS
BABES IN TOYLAND » »
Laurel and Hardy, Charlotte Henry. Direction by Cus Meins and Charles Rogers. Hal Roach Production. M-C-M.
The loved characters of Fairyland walk from the pages of Mother Goose to greet us from Toyland. Even Mickey Mouse and the Three Little Pigs are there in person, and cavort to the melodies of Victor Herbert’s operetta, so popular a generation ago. It is a lovely realm of unreality until the crass touch of materialism is introduced in picturing a bogey land with writhing crocodiles and hairy, grinning apes to frighten little Bo Peep and her friends as well as children in the audience. The pursuit of these monsters, the crash of the gates of Toyland and the prolonged fight cannot be easily dispelled even by the final triumph of the wooden soldiers. It is stupid to have had adult interpretation ruin the suitability of a film whose
appeal otherwise is chiefly for children’s audiences.
Adolescents, 12 to 16 Children, 8 to 12
Possibly amusing Not under ten
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CHU CHIN CHOW » »
Anna May Wong, George Robey, Thelma Tuson, Fritz Kortner. Direction by Walter Forde. British Gaumont Production.
An Arabian Nights tale connotes fantasy, exaggeration and romance but never realism. We believe the chief fault of the film version of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves is that it has been handsomely staged and skilfully cast but the magic is dissipated by too faithful a portrayal of the diabolical behavior of the thieving band. Otherwise, although disappointing, the spectacle is colorful, tuneful and entertaining. The familiar music is delightful, and one could wish that better photography could have caught the full glamor, preferably