Word: arabs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arab. The locale of The Arab is Northern Africa and thither Rex Ingram moved his company. In view of this effort one is somewhat disappointed not to find a more unusual picture...
Ramon Navarro in the title role is more roguish than ever before. One is grateful for the absence of "Sheikery." While the Arab's desert-tribe does gallop across the hot sands to the rescue of the Mission at the crucial moment, Rex Ingram has not handled this in the absurd way which often causes the spectators to reach for their hats and march...
...argument over Mosul is: Does it belong to Iraq or to Turkey? The real trouble is much deeper than that. Mosul has become in diplomatic language a mere pseudonym for oil, because around that city are rich oil fields. Britain has a protectorate over Iraq and supports the Iraquians (Arab inhabitants of Iraq) against Turkish claims to Mosul. The Turks claim Mosul on ethnological grounds, a claim which is patently absurd, because the percentage of Turks there is small. None of the nations concerned utter so much as one syllable about oil-but oil is meant just the same...
...Majesty King Hussein of the Hedjas appointed Dr. Fuad Shatara as the Hedjas Minister to the U.S. This appointment was said to be the first time an Arab Envoy had been sent to a Christian country since the days of Arabian rule in Spain...
...Song of Love. From an overelaboration of attire in costume dramas Norma Talmadge turns to the bare minimum of an Algerian dancing girl. She unwittingly betrays her people by falling in love with a French spy, masquerading as an Arab to learn of the regular monthly Tuareg rebellion. The happy ending is easily anticipated, although she stabs herself. In her first semi-vamp role, Miss Talmadge makes good. But Joseph Schildkraut seems to be working under wraps. Atmosphere is generally excellent, being obviously hand-made only in the girl's name-Noorma-Hal, fashioned from the cable address...