Cinema: Latest Labors

As the new movie season swung into high gear, Hollywood began peppering U. S. theatres thick & fast with a hybrid collection of pictures. Some of the fair, good and best were:

The Thief of Bagdad (United Artists), which Technicolors most of the natural phenomena in sight between London and Hollywood, including the Grand Canyon and the Painted Desert. Against this setting, young Hindu Cinema Star Sabu, a brown-skinned blend of Mickey Rooney and Jon Hall, snatches food from Arab peddlers, scampers mischievously through vari-hued sultans' palaces, grapples with monsters, summons a towering...

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