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...city of 250,000 people that is drenched in dust, swept by howling, bitter-cold winds in winter and scorched by an angry sun in summer. A 19th century British traveler, James Morier, described Iran's religious center as a place in which, "excepting on the subject of religion, and settling who are worthy of salvation, and who are to be damned, no one opens his lips. Every man you meet is either a descendant of the Prophet or a man of the law. All wear long and mortified faces ... These priests will harken to no medium?either...
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...
...Last week, in Montreal, Alice Provost, 22, Marie Blanche Armande Nichol, 17 and Thérèse Morier, 17, claimed to have been cured suddenly on Jan. 28 of well-defined infirmities (discrepancy in the length of legs, paralyzed leg, stiff arm); when and because one Father Jacques Dugas subjected them to a laying-on of a reliquary which contained the bones of some recently beatified Jesuit martyrs. Physicians examined the girls, sent a certificate of their cure to Rome by a Jesuit Father and said: "You may thank God for such extraordinary benedictions...
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