Word: allah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...saluted was Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, bronzed and stalwart Sultan of Nejd, King of the Hejaz. He subjects his nose to kisses, instead of receiving bows of homage, because his subjects are of a fanatically orthodox Moslem sect, the Wahabi, and hold that the pious should bow only to Allah. Last week the Sultan and his devout Sheiks were persistently reported to have launched a "Holy War." Menaced areas: the British Mandates of Palestine, Transjordania, Irak and the Sultanate of Koweit...
Eddie Buzzell, as a newspaper correspondent who is captured by "a thousand, no, more than that--ten hundred Riffs," furnishes the amusement. His prayer to Allah, beginning "you know me, Al," is a gem. This comic interpolation, combined with Sigmund Romber's music, suffices to make "The Desert Song" entertainment of the first rank...
Perhaps the fear, in this case, is an empty one, but it is usually true that when a band of zealots with a cry of "Allah!" pluage with proselytizing fervor into a war for a cause, the validity of the means becomes obscured in the worth of the end. The liberties taken by anti-German historians in the war are well known, and the dubious statement is current that sixty per cent of the babies born of tobacco smoking mothers die in two years. At least, no doubt, a man drinking aldehyde will replace the policeman...
...from the world and its strife. They marry, spend their honeymoon in a desert caravan. She, ardent Catholic, knows nothing of his sacrilege. He, ardent lover, dares not tell. When conscience has extorted a confession, she returns him to his monastery and God, betaking herself to the Garden of Allah, gem of the desert, where their courtship began and her days will end. It is a strangely dignified conclusion for a cinema, making regret all the keener that the reels of beautiful pictures have no dramatic motion to make their unrolling a fascination...
...novel, The Garden of Allah, sold to over a million copies. Made into a play in 1911 by the author in collaboration with Mary Anderson (actress-author), it ran for two seasons in the Century Theatre, Manhattan; for three seasons in London...