Word: baba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinemaddicts. Its actors muffle their accents, sing with no more affectation than U. S. musicomedy performers. Prepared without either the gross exaggerations of a DeMille or the onyx convolutions of a Busby Berkeley, Chu Chin Chow is elaborate without being absurd. It relates the story of Ali Baba (George Robey) and the 40 thieves, exhibits the misfortunes which overtake the head thief Abu Hasan (Fritz Kortner) when he inflicts unjust punishment on his favorite dancing girl (Anna May Wong). Interspersed with songs, dances, oriental feasts and samples of British comic opera jocosity, it requires almost two hours for the thieves...
...study political economy at Columbia University, Ali Baba, 20, son of the Sheikh Mahumud of Suleimaniye, Irak, arrived in Manhattan from Alexandria, Egypt, where he spent the last four years in college. Said Ali Baba: "Please let me say that no years shall ever compare with the five years I was with the great chieftain, my father, when he made war in the Kurd Mountains...
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...Philadelphia, Negress Maude Roberts gave $60 to "Prince Ali Baba" for a "vanishing powder" so her sister could vanish from a Washington jail, had Prince Ali Baba (one Grant Reid) arrested when she failed to vanish...
...Charles Francis Adams used to be president of the Forty Associates, a group of old Boston families with extensive realty holdings in the business district. Because State Street had fun referring to "AH Baba Adams and his 40 thieves," the membership was enlarged, the name changed...