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Praise as strong as this of course demands some explanation. There have been many good pictures since "The Birth of a Nation"; there have been a few excellent ones; but not until "The Thief of Bagdad" has there been one that could be considered quite its equal. Half a dozen pictures might be mentioned which are rich in historical interest or beautiful in pictorial setting, but none of them have had the charming romance and clean humor which lift "The Thief of Bagdad" above lesser productions...
...reader has gained the impression that "The Thief of Bagdad" is perfect, he is wrong. The reviewer can think of several faults that he might point out. But the virtues are so much greater than the vices, and the picture is withal so far above the ordinary, that its shortcomings may well be overlooked. If the motion picture camera has ever recorded a more enchanting romance, a more delightfully impossible fantasy, or a cleaner fairy story, it has not been the pleasure of the writer...
Mesopotamia. At Kish, near Bagdad, the Oxford and Field Museum expedition (TIME, July 9), has found a magnificent Sumerian palace; a library of cuneiform tablets, containing grammars and dictionaries of the Sumerian and Babylonian languages; a bone stylus six inches long, the oldest known pen; and a solid gold earring and other jewelry from a clay coffin of the time of Nebuchadnezzar. Kish was one of the oldest Babylonian capitals, already the seat of four great dynasties before the age of Sargon...
...route is: Los Angeles, Seattle, Prince Rupert, (B. C), Sitka (Alaska), ......... Island of Attu, Kashiwabara Bay, Bettobu (Kuriles), Minato Japan (April 17) .......... Shanghai .......... Akyab (Burma), Calcutta (May 28) .......... Bagdad, San Stefnano, Bucharest, Belgrade, Vienna, Strassbourg, Paris, London .......... Kirwall (Orkney Islands) .......... Reykjavik (Iceland), Angmaksalik (Greenland) .......... Indian Harbor (Labrador) .......... Montreal, Keyport, N. J., Washington, Dayton, St. Joseph, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles...
...Mary and Douglas Pickford," as Fairbanks described himself and play- mate, are arranging for the showing of their new pictures, Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Mary and The Thief of Bagdad by Doug. Soon they depart for England to add a little excitement to the life of Edward of Wales...