Word: toyland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pittsburgh, dazzled with its brand-new $250,000 symphony orchestra, formed last fall, had been trying on conductors like a rejuvenated dowager trying on new hats. In the 'nineties and the early 1900s Pittsburgh boasted a respectable symphony orchestra under genial Victor Herbert (Babes in Toyland, Kiss Me Again), and sternly mustached Emil Paur. In 1910 the orchestra collapsed, remained collapsed for 16 years. Subsequent revival, on a shoe-string budget under Conductor Antonio Modarelli, was halfhearted...
...display the negligible talents of Enrico Caruso Jr. The Red Mitt plot served Marion Davies once in the days of silent pictures. A distorted version of Mademoiselle Modiste called Kiss Me Again passed by practically unnoticed when it was produced in 1931. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer experimented with Babes in Toyland (1934), kept only three of the original Herbert tunes, rearranged the plot to suit Comics Laurel & Hardy...
Currently exhibited in the U. S. and recommended by most critics are: The Private Life of Don Juan, The President Vanishes, Babbitt, Babes in Toyland, Broadway Bill, Flirtation Walk, The Battle, The Merry Widow, Man of Aran, Our Daily Bread...
Last week's official Catholic "Motion Picture Guide" listed 37 suitable "Class A" pictures ("unobjectionable and suitable for public entertainment"). Listed along with not a few mediocre films were Anne of Green Gables, Babes in Toyland, Baby Take a Bow, Marie Galante, One Night of Love, The Count of Monte Cristo, Great Expectations, Judge Priest, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Treasure Island, What Every Woman Knows...
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...