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There is a fine gaudy pageant called Once Upon a Time, in which Sinbad, Gulliver, Aladdin, Don Quixote, Rip van Winkle, Snow White, Hansel & Gretel walk, drive, or ride elephant-back to Cinderella's wedding. Then 52 girls in brilliant billowing pink, hanging by a wrist in midair, do a stylish cancan...
...basic scenario, one (or more) of the ancient fairy tales or legends-Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Aladdin, Babes in the Wood, Dick Whittington, Mother Goose. Sometimes these are weirdly blended: this year's Red Riding Hood features Mother Hubbard and Simple Simon. Most modern admissions to the panto-Pantheon: Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan. The eternal favorite: Cinderella...
Many of these tales have been told before in other lands, in other tongues. Ali Baba, Aladdin, Big Klaus and Little Klaus and many others are here in naturalized form. But the background of these Russian stories is the vast steppes, the dark conifer forests, the softly falling snow. They are dominated by strange creations of the Slav mind-Baba Yaga (the witch who lives in a little hut that stands on hen's legs), the Sea King (who rises from the depths to enslave human beings), Zhar-ptitsa (the Firebird), Koshchey the Deathless, who is really "little father...
...popes, and to medieval and modern Moslems by their Koran), what of Shakespeare with his Shylock, and Dickens with his Fagin; what of the Bible (I Thessalonians, II, 14-16); what of the Koran; what of the Arabian Nights, where a Jew is said to have cheated an orphan (Aladdin) and his widowed mother of the true price of a table service brought them by a jinn...
...that they have seen it all a thousand and one times before: the bejeweled, cloth-of-gold turbans; the moon-drenched palace gardens; the sleepy camels and fiery horses; interior sets as sumptuous as Hollywood nightclubs and exteriors that make the Taj Mahal look ramshackle; the vagabond street singer, Aladdin (Cornel Wilde), whose love for beautiful Princess Armina (Adele Jergens) is thwarted by the Sultan's wicked brother (Dennis Hoey...