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...Adventures of Hajji Baba (Allied Artists; 20th Century-Fox). In the old days, when a Hollywood studio wanted a famous composer to write background music for a film, it had to play an expensive game of Haydn seek; nowadays, the film colony has a sort of Bach yard full of kept musical geniuses. The current favorite is a man called Dimitri Tiomkin, who has filled in the awkward pauses of High Noon, Cyrano de Bergerac and many other recent pictures with stuff that one critic called "Kaffee-Klatchaturian...
With Hajji Baba, Composer Tiomkin rises above all that. He has not written his score to fit the film; the film has apparently been written to fit his score. The compliment is a dubious one. Allegedly based on some 19th century picaresques about Persia by Author James Morier, Hajji Baba is all too obviously based on nothing but some old Bagdad sets that Producer Walter Wanger found around Hollywood. From there out it's silks of Ind. accents of Chi. on with the swarth and out with the nautch. A heavy navel bombardment in rich color is followed...
...those wars, many of his ancestors died martyrs' deaths. One of them, Bhai Mani Singh, fell into the hands of the Great Mogul Aurangzeb, who first chopped off Bhai Mani Singh's fingers, joint by joint, then lopped off his limbs, one by one. Another, Baba Sukha Singh, died under Moslem knives after assassinating a Moslem chieftain who had turned the Sikhs' holy Golden Temple at Amritsar into a brothel...
...months ago, Barbara Morton-Stewart began to get a broader insight into her husband's nature and finances when he suddenly vanished from Birmingham, leaving her with a large staff of unpaid servants, a mountain of unpaid bills, and a tender note saying: "My darling Baba, I shall always love you. I am terribly sorry...
...eyed jumper who carried him to Olympic and international laurels. Arete had broken a leg and died after an operation. D'Oriola, accustomed to the longer European jumping courses and hardly at home in the Garden, nonetheless was superbly mounted on his big chestnut Olympic horse, Ali Baba. Steinkraus was teamed up with an amazingly old (19) brown gelding named Democrat, a retired cavalry horse from the old Army Remount Service at Fort Riley, Kans. and a jumper of legendary prowess at many another U.S. horse show...