Evening star., 1934-12-17

young 1Olk Will particularly Wdh1
to see this during the holidays. The
legend of "Ali Baba and the Forty
Thieves" is revived with evident joy,
SO that when some of the boys cry
"Open Sesame!" and those gaunt
gray walls slide apart, revealing acres
of treasures and enough diamonds to
use as car tokens for the rest of your
life, you will find your Arabian Nights
coming back once more upon you and
realize that it is time, perhaps, once
again to delve into their mystic lore.
"Chu Chin Chow" is the story OF
the poor man of Baghdad who fell into
a pot of gold by discovering those
two immortal passwords, open
Sesame!" BY so doing he runs into
the wicked Abou Hassan, who kills
the real Chu Chin Chow on his way
to Baghdad and then puts himself in
Chow's place. 1t is also the story OF
the little spy (Anna May Wong who
is party to all this, and who, when
she is made slave by her former
master Abou for supposedly playing
traitor to him. escapes from her i'm
prisonment, dances before some sort
of a king and kills Abou, who is there
In disguise.
This part we liked best. As the king
watches this dancing girl dance, he is
bored to distraction, having as he says
seen scores of dancing girls during his
Journeys across the world. But when
Anna May bounces up to her former
master and sticks that knife neatly in
L; a. he Linr Sitc smiles
and cackles and says that he mas
never been so amused in his life. Then
when Abou gets an arrow in his chest
and rolls down that long flight OF
stairs the king positively howls for
pleasure-and ends up by freeing the
beautiful slave girl who has been
wanting her freedom all along.
The love story of this slave girl, by
the way, is pretty sad, since besides
showing some looking shots of
looking Pearl Argyle, it does
nothing but stop the flow of the story
and give some sort of tenor two
very bad songs. However, when you
have skipped the tenor and his songs
and when you have surmounted two
or three long musical sequences,
you'll get some enjoyment out OF the
spectacles that are presented.
Other than the capable Miss Wong,
the chief roles are played by George
Robey, Fritz Kortner, John Garrick
and Denis Hoey. But these, alas,
although perfectly good actors, mean
no more to us than might lily at
Christmas time.
AT LEAST half dozen people from
"A Washington are planning to at
tend the opening of Katharine Cor
ne1l's production of Romeo and
Juliet" at the Martin Beck Theater
in New York Thursday-"planning"
because unless they have their seats
now the nearest they'll probably get
will be standing room on Sixth avenue.
Saturday night, too, will find many
Washingtonians at the premiere Of
Helen Gahagan's new play, Mother
Lode" in which a Washington lad,
Robert Shayne, has an important
role.
Word this am. from Donald
Woods Che has the lead, by the way,
opposite Irene Dunno IN sweet
Adeline"O. Says he: Received some
clippings telling me about Steve
Cochran adding Hibby" (that would
be Adelaide Hibbard) ito the faculty
of his school. No fooling, Steve's
school is to be congratulated on ac-
quiring Mrs Hibbard. She not only
knows the theater from A to 2, but
has a personality that cannot fail to
help her in that type of work, or any
work for that matter.
Maxine Doyle is back in the fold
again with long tales of her good times
In Washington a few weeks ago-also
Guy Kibbe bears same from New York
and Washington" etc.
incidentally, Addie Hibbard's arrival
in Washington on Saturday was sort
of triumphal entry. Everybody from
A to z was on hand to greet her and
the ovation she received last night at