Word: nautch
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...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 by dialogue ("Allah be praised!") and swarms of half-naked warrior women who kill their male captives with too much kindness. Enter Hajji the Barber himself (John Derek), who goes in for close shaves and comes out with a distant princess...
From their 20-year-repertory, the pair danced the pastoral Tillers of the Soil, the romantic Josephine and Hippolyte. St. Denis soloed her Indian Rajput Nautch, and Shawn whirled through 540 gyrations in his Mevlevi Dervish. At the end, after a Brahms waltz, which showed her still-youthful white body shimmering under turquoise veiling, he carried her off stage, just as he had done many a time long ago. One sentimentalist in the audience whispered: "Maybe they'll go home together." It was sentiment, but not romance, that had brought Ruth St. Denis from California to help Shawn raise...
...hairbreadth escape from the royal guards, marries off his pretty, dark-haired daughter (Joy Ann Page) to the handsome young caliph (James Craig), carries off Miss Dietrich for himself. Meantime Miss Dietrich, her renowned legs and lesser anatomy encased in a heavy layer of gold paint, performs a Hollywood nautch dance as politely voluptuous as the Hays office allows...
Shaw: "I have read the . . . scenes you . . . mapped out. You . . . must have got frightfully drunk . . . to conceive such a thing. Stephen and Cusins playing baccarat and Undershaft living like a second lieutenant just come into a legacy, with nautch girls all complete, is beyond the wildest dreams of Sam Goldwyn. . . . Unless you kept a copy it is dead...
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...