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Soon the U.S. was obsessed with a challenging peacetime problem- plumbing. Soon it had the most luxurious bathrooms since Haroun A; Rashid piped Tigris water into Bagdad-and in much th esame stryle. It also had the fastest automobile and airplanes, the most lavish radios, the most sumptuous refrigerators, the baggiest plust fours, the biggest skyscrapers housing the biggest millionaires, the biggest speakeasies, the biggest racketeers and gang wars, the biggest crime wave, and in the end the biggest depression, winding up in the biggest war in history...
...like Haroun al Rashid, Prince Mohamed occasionally doffed his princely garb and mingled with commoners...
...picture is full of fire, galloping steeds and sword play-most of the playing by copper-torsoed Jon Hall, who plays Haroun-Al-Raschid to Miss Montez' Sherazade. But that is not all. The picture is, besides, an unusually effective Technicolor job. Best shots: the play of sunlight and shadow across the rich bronze desert sands...
...Baba Goes to Town (Twentieth Century-Fox) transports taw-eyed, prancing little Eddie Cantor to ancient Bagdad, where he physics the ailing realm of Sultan Roland Young with panaceas borrowed from the New Deal. Haroun-al-Cantor's venture into political satire is tuneful, gay, imaginatively written, generously produced. The cumulative effect of its guying would not nettle even the income tax bureau, for Funnyman Cantor pokes lightly at an array of straw...
...Saracen overlord. Returning in force, the Saracen prevails, but not until O'Neill has, with his bare hands, slain one of their champions. For this feat his life is spared by Kothra, the sheikess of the piece. First as prisoner, then as guest of Kothra and the Sheykh Haroun, her father, young O'Neill is torn between ancestral pride and desert love; also between his inherited Christianity, which the crusaders' irreligion spoils for him, and Islam, which his courteous captor-hosts gently urge...