Word: nautch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marx Bros. At The Circus (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) checks the recent decline in Marx Brothers' pictures with two of their fastest, funniest sequences-a riotous Newport society and circus climax, and Groucho doing a combination rumba, tango and nautch dance with one pant leg kitten-ishly hoisted while he sings of his tattooed lost love, Lydia that Encyclopedia...
...present Maharaja's father, Tukoji Rao III, once fell in love with a nautch-girl named Mumtaz Begum. So ardent was Tukoji Rao III that Mumtaz Begum wearied of him and fled to Bombay, where one Bawla took her under his wealthy wing. Tukoji Rao III was furious. One day when Bawla and Mumtaz Begum were out driving, a band of thugs hired by the Maharaja set upon them, stabbed Bawla to death, were only prevented from killing Mumtaz Begum by a group of Englishmen returning from a go of golf, armed with drivers, mashies, putters. In the ensuing...
...with a fever of 102°. But he was not through. Before he is really Fawziya's husband, he will have to travel with his bride to Iran (in a separate stateroom), be married the Persian way, feast 96 hours on goat's meat, watch nautch girls (professional dancers) do their stuff...
...Cairo's resplendent Théâtre Royal de I'Opera last week the International Convention of Telecommunications. Its delegates from 62 nations agreed that the terrace of Tony Shepheard's Hotel is one of the finest places for Scotch & soda, agreed that Cairo's Nautch Girls and night spots are messy, overrated. The delegates had not yet agreed at latest dispatches upon any major issue of Telecommunications...
...exhibitions wore away his last trace of self-consciousness in public. A "durbar" of the Al Malaikah Temple Shrine, of which he is an enthusiastic member, popped him into print again. Cavorting with 35,000 fezzed brethren in a ''Streets of Delhi" scene. Shriner Gettle took one "nautch girl" on his knee, wiggled a finger at another while photographers took his picture. Emporia's Editor William Allen White told the graduating class of the University of Kansas: "We have dumped at the portals of your life one of the most elaborate metallic scrap heaps that the history...