Word: wonderland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 out the studio window, retaining only three Herbert songs. What remains is a queer blend of Alice in Wonderland, Mother Goose, Laurel & Hardy, and Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. That the result makes no sense whatever in no way diminishes the fun of Babes in Toyland. Ollie Dee (Hardy) and Stannie Dum (Laurel) are boarders at the establishment of the Old Lady Who Lives in a Shoe. Her daughter...
Died. Alice Pleasance Liddell Hargreaves, 82, original of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland; in Westerham, Kent, England...
...promising step. The science of child welfare is a new one. There will come a day, perhaps, when the fatherly hand of the justices shall have penetrated even into the dreary tenement wastes and little Oliver Twist, in starched collar and sailor-suit, will be read "Alice in Wonderland" by judicial mandate...
Although George Arliss makes the picture what it is, his cast ably supports him. Charlotte Henry has outgrown "Alice in Wonderland", but still looks a little too much like Shirley Temple for a mature part...
Last week an anonymous Army officer who signed himself "A Tory" brought dry grins to the doleful face of the G. 0. P. with a 50? pamphlet titled Frankie in Wonderland. Sample paraphrase...