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...Baba Goes to Town (Twentieth Century-Fox) transports taw-eyed, prancing little Eddie Cantor to ancient Bagdad, where he physics the ailing realm of Sultan Roland Young with panaceas borrowed from the New Deal. Haroun-al-Cantor's venture into political satire is tuneful, gay, imaginatively written, generously produced. The cumulative effect of its guying would not nettle even the income tax bureau, for Funnyman Cantor pokes lightly at an array of straw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...date. Cantor is a star-struck autograph hunter on his way to Hollywood for a rubberneck vacation among the famous faces. He stumbles on the desert location of a cinema company making an episode from the Arabian Nights, becomes an extra, falls asleep in the jar reserved for Ali Baba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...pads like a huge mattress, was covered with a carpet. In fact, this super-gadget was a "magic carpet," reminiscent of the one Douglas Fairbanks rode 13 years ago in the Thief of Bagdad. Eddie Cantor had used this one for three weeks in his picture-in-process, AH Baba Goes to Town. For a magic carpet it weighed a good deal-1,500 Ib. Actor Cantor was going to the set later in the day to ride it some more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fatal Magic | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

Eddie Cantor in Ali Baba Goes to Town, a new French star called Germaine Aussey in Lancer Spy, another investigation of the Quintuplets, a picture about Stanley and Livingstone (Twentieth Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Plots & Plans | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...divided into regional groups. Each group recognizes as world champion its own champion who, for box-office reasons, usually prefers not to wrestle rival champions. Currently, there are six claimants to the title besides Levin: Rudy Dusek, Danno O'Mahoney, Everett Marshall. Leo Daniel Boone Sav age, Ali Baba, Jack Sherry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wrestlers' Unrest | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

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