Word: baba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood went H. R. H. Sylvia, white-skinned Ranee of Sarawak,* for a public reconciliation with her cinemastruck daughter, Mrs. Bob Gregory ("Princess Baba" of Sarawak), who married a wrestler against her mother's wishes. To newsmen the Ranee complained: "My daughter is not a princess and never was a princess!" Added pretty Mrs. Gregory: "And my name was never Princess Baba either...
Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr. -- Miss Baba Madden, Jamaica Plain...
Library opinion of Princess Baba was unanimously favorable. "Obviously the most beautiful woman who has ever been in Widener Library" seemed to be the consensus of these preparing for the State Government examination in the Government section of the Reading Room--" An exquisite blonde of Junoesque preparations, didn't you think," just about summed up the English tables, while the Library official who conducted the four contented himself with one of the greatest understatements of the new year. "Um rather an attractive girl, I thought." he said...
Based on political satire that is amusing if not very biting, "All Baba" is worth seeing though to some it may seem to suffer from the plethora of stage and screen production of the same nature currently before the public...
...Baba Goes to Town" is a good musical comedy but a mediocre political satire. It makes people laugh but seldom think, ergo the perfect evening's relation. Some of the wisecracks are excellent, others can be soon hours before they come...