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...Arabian Nights...
...music. With the failure of the new Hungarian Music Society in which he played a major role, Bartok, not yet appreciated by the musical world, retired in 1912 in order to make a thorough study of folk music, going as far afield as Biskra in 1913 in quest of Arabian music. In 1917, his "intellectual ballet" the "Woodcut Prince" was given a performance in Budapest, and when this was followed a year later by the opera "Bluebeard's Castle" both critics and public alike looked upon him with favor. He has continued to compose, in fact producing a violin concerto...
...Arabian Nights (Universal) would be just another oldtime sheik picture but for 1) sleek Maria Montez, 2) Technicolor. The new year will be Technicolor's year, and in Technicolor Miss Montez will help make it happy...
...Arabian Nights is a forerunner of a flood of Technicolor pictures scheduled to come from Hollywood in this year. Last year Hollywood made 25 feature films in color, some 10% of its total footage. It now has 36 in production or preparation. One big studio (20th Century-Fox) plans to make 25% of its features in color. The Technicolor Motion Picture Corp., which processes color film for all the studios, is turning out some 7,000,000 feet a month. But not many of the feet will be as pretty as Miss Montez...
Denials came on the heels of reports that Scorchdancer Josephine Baker, longtime toast of the Paris stage, had" died in Casablanca. New word was that the American-born colored comedienne was lounging in the native quarter of Morocco's isolated Marrakech in "solitary Arabian splendor...