Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose pictures United Artists has been distributing in the U. S. for the past two years. First foreign partner in a U. S. film company, Mr. Korda planned to continue to produce abroad, said he would leave immediately and start Cyrano de Bergerac with Charles Laughton, Lawrence of Arabia with a brand new star named Walter Hudd, who was advertised as a discovery of George Bernard Shaw...
BLACK TENTS OF ARABIA-Carl R. Raswan-Little, Brown...
...Raswan to observe and participate in aspects of Bedouin life closed to most foreigners. He lived with the Ruala as one of them, visited them eleven times in the next 22 years, hunted and raided with them, was eventually adopted into the tribe as a chieftain. Black Tents of Arabia consists of 28 lean chapters of reminiscences that give the impression of having been carefully selected from a great storehouse of similar memories. Essentially the work of a man of action-the author dismisses in two paragraphs his experiences in the Turkish Army, an attack of typhus, work in Russian...
When Carl Raswan returned to Arabia after the War he was given as guide and traveling companion Faris ibn Naif es-Sa'bi, gentle-eyed, black-bearded Bedouin nobleman, "the truest friend I have ever known.'' With Faris he drove from Damascus over the hard, dry, gravel uplands in search of Amir Fuaz, witnessed the unfolding of Faris' romance with a young shepherdess, Tuema, encountered on the way. When the two travelers pledged Tuema their protection, she let them sleep in her tent without fear, knowing that they would not break their word. Later Carl Raswan...
Carl Raswan rode on to other parts of Arabia, was captured by raiding enemies of Amir Fuaz and rescued by Amir himself, went on a great falcon hunt with the prince. Two years later he saw Tuema again, learned that Faris' brief marriage had ended happily by the standards of Bedouin romance, since Tuema had borne...