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During World War II he picked up a "nose flute," used by South Pacific islanders who like to make music and chew betel nut at the same time. He was recently heard to play Abdul, the Bulbul Ameer on this odd instrument. At nights aboard the Helena, Pride's staff gathers in the wardroom for informal musical sessions, with the ship's paymaster banging out tunes on the spinet in the key of C (which is the only one he knows) while other musical officers toot away on harmonicas...
...have no kick coming. For Richard Dix, Chester Morris, and Dolores Del Rio do their respective tasks to perfection. Before the caviling mood is passed, it might be observed that in the final scene, in China, Richard and Chester's telling us in discordant song that Abdul Abulbul Ameer fought in the ranks of the Tsar, is likely to be resented by admirers of the old ballad as an unpardonable confusion...
...Assumed by the early princes of Afghanistan, Sind and Bokhara with a significance roughly equivalent to "Sultan" ; elsewhere in the East equivalent to "Commander," "Lord" (in the British sense) or simply "chieftain." The Occidental "Admiral" was derived or corrupted from the Oriental "Amir," "Emir," "Ameer...
...AMEER-SHAH Teheran, Persia...
...Four of a Kind," Hollis 31 and 32; "Fourfiushers," Hollis 29 and 30; "Injuneers," Thayer 27 and 28; "John Smith, Jr.," Stoughton 31 and 32; "T. Salicetti," Thayer 51 and 52; "Ted Skinner," Thayer 64 and 66; "Steve Brody," Thayer 46 and 48; "Abdullash Bulbul I'Ameer," Thayer 45 and 47; "Arthur T. Hadley," Thayer 63 and 65; "The Early Birds," Holworthy 17; "J. D. Dickson," Thayer 55; "Lohengrin," Thayer 32; "Madame X," Thayer 25; "Roselle," Thayer 50; "Maldoniensis," Thayer 56; "Applicants," Thayer 1; "Julius Caesar and Company," Thayer 40; "Anna Held," Thayer 67; "Arthur B. Arkwright," Thayer 33; "Venus...