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...Babes in Toyland (Hal Roach). With the notable exception of Walt Disney cartoons, fantasy is not a form of entertainment in which the cinema excels. Particularly in fantasy for children, there usually prevails a certain horrid condescension on the part of producers who, unwilling to risk inventing fantasies of their own, prefer to adapt classics. This fact makes it hard to believe that any adaptation of Victor Herbert's famed operetta would amount to more than a ridiculous calamity. Fortunately, Producer Hal Roach, well-versed in the art of gag comedies, saw fit to throw most of his original material...
Minors, for whom Babes in Toyland was presumably intended, are almost sure to like it. A more important recommendation is the strong probability that it will not bore, disgust or irritate their elders...
...interest of the juvenile holiday trade the Brothers Shubert have revived Victor Herbert's Babes In Toyland. The production has an air of Herbert-cum-Ringling Bros. For the chief attraction of the show is a troupe of Singer's midgets who dress up as penguins in the toyshop scene, play in a jazz band, direct the lumbering movements of three very large elephants. In the midst of the general merriment one midget rides across the stage on a reindeer. What is left of the Herbert score is ably handled by a cast of full-sized adults...
...possibly some of the books might not be suitable for a House library. When the set arrived it was found that Sir Archibald had written four juvenile books, and that these had been included in the order: these were returned, since it was felt that books entitled "Peggy in Toyland", and "Audacious Ann" might not interest members of Lowell and Dunster Houses...
...most revivals are received is entirely unnecessary here. The amous March of the Toys is one of the most satisfying ensemble pieces that has appeared in Boston in a long time. If one is in a whimsical, Alice in Wonder and mood and has a free evening, "Babes in Toyland" is an excellent place to indulge...