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...British control from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea, thereby adding a magnificent frontier province to British India. The Mesopotamian campaign had slopped over into always neutral Persia, but in 1918 the British drove the Turks out and garrisoned Persia's strong places. The next year Shah Ahmad, even bleaker-brained than Shah Muzaffar, had no alternative but to submit to an agreement by which his country came under Britain's political and military control...
Shah of Persia then was the squat, pillowy royal jerk, Ahmad (height 5 ft., 2 in.; weight 275 lb.), a member of the Kajar Dynasty which had leeched on the Persian people since the late 18th Century. Ahmad's most solemn edicts, when there were any, were not obeyed outside of Teheran. He was known as the Grocery Boy Shah because he once cornered his country's entire grain crop during a famine and sold it to his starving subjects at colossal prices...
...skinned blend of Mickey Rooney and Jon Hall, snatches food from Arab peddlers, scampers mischievously through vari-hued sultans' palaces, grapples with monsters, summons a towering genie, flies over the top of the world, blows up the Grand Canyon and brings love to the lives of slim, handsome Ahmad (John Justin, now a pilot with the R. A. F.) and the buxom, slant-eyed Princess (June Duprez). The sinister forces are led by Conrad Veidt, who conjures up more dire magic and dirty treachery than the screen has seen since Dracula...
LAND WITHOUT LAUGHTER-Ahmad Kama/-Scribner...
...Land Without Laughter. Real name of Ahmad Kamal is Cimarron Hathaway, 28, redheaded, scimitar-scarred. Great-grandson of a Tatar chieftain, he spent most of his childhood on U. S. Indian reservations, where his German-born mother did tribal research...