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...stances, our love, and a New Revised copy of School Regs. . . . Corley: the telephone number of the best decorated bank in Cambridge (especially the rear windows). . . . "Feather Merchant" Cassell: A set of life rafts in case of unseasonal heavy rains in the Boston area--size 14. . .. AND, to SINBAD: anything he dam well wants! . . . ditto the rest of you guys--this is thirty from...

Author: By Ens. GUY Osborne, | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 1/25/1944 | See Source »

...forget Sabu the Elephant Boy, and concentrate on Maria Montez, you won't mind this distorted version of the Arabian Nights. The scenery is in Arizona, not Arabia, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba are comics, and the story revolves around a dispute between two brothers as to who shall buy Caliph. Whatever liberties Hollywood has taken with the original are more than justified by luscious harem scenes and Maria Montez in technicolor. As a movie it is worth one, but as entertainment at least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTERTAINMENT | 3/26/1943 | See Source »

...itself and slyly cuckolds the Hays office. In Nights there is a tubby old boy who claims to have been "the Bag of Bagdad." There is an Aladdin (John Qualen) whose companions jeer: "You've told that lamp story so often you believe it yourself." There is a Sinbad (Shemp Howard) whose refrain is: "This calls to mind an experience I once had as a sailor." And there is a harem which does bumps and grinds and makes the standard Hollywood harem look as well clad as a winter army on the Russian steppes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 11, 1943 | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...same question: Is it a good risk? In all the U. S. today there is only one man whose power is greater: Franklin Roosevelt. The President can force Jones to resign at any moment. But many men say that public opinion would never let the President jettison Jesse, that Sinbad Roosevelt is fated always to carry Old-Man-of-the-Sea-Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Emperor Jones | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...actress, now lives with a Persian cat in Manhattan. Last week Storyteller Mack celebrated her tenth anniversary in radio by directing The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins for the Columbia Workshop. It was the 1,304th show that she had had a hand in. First, in 1930, was Sinbad the Sailor, with a cast of grownups and children. Dissatisfied with the adults in Sinbad, Miss Mack decided to round up a group of untrained small fry, to teach by her own methods. Among others, she has taught the Mauch twins and Billy Halop, the Dead End Kid. Miss Mack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Let's Pretend | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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