Word: bagdad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This month Regent Prince Abdul Illah went on vacation to Basra after the Parliament recessed. Hardly had he left Bagdad when things began...
First came the resignation of Premier El-Hashimi. He charged that the Regent was fostering "indiscriminate favoritism and pompousness" at the Iraqi court. Before the ink was dry on the resignation, into the Government offices at Bagdad strutted the deus ex machina, El-Gailani, declaiming "I am Premier. I will save the beloved country from the poison of favoritism." Just to make sure, civil servants called the Army, had the coup okayed...
Donovan's Axis. To Belgrade, back to Athens, then to Turkey, to Cairo again, to Irak and Palestine and Bagdad, then once more to London, the Colonel's travels carried him. All that he had seen & heard strengthened his belief in his private theory of the Mediterranean's importance in the war. The Donovan theory: think of the Mediterranean as running north & south, not east & west. Then it becomes a vast No Man's Land between two fronts: the European Front, which is Germany's (with a British salient in Greece), and the African Front...
...sings Vernon Duke's "Taking a Chance On Love" and "Cabin in the Sky," life is a different thing. But even she is unable to steal the whole show. Rex Ingrain, whose face and voice will be most recently remembered as that of the Genii in "The Thief of Bagdad," is about as devilishly good as Lucifer, Jr. could be. His be-winged opponent in the contest over Little Joe's destination after death, the Laws's General himself, is sung and acted, with the experienced touch of Todd Duncan. Little Joe, the wayward, crap-shooting husband of Petunia...
...Thief of Bagdad (United Artists), which Technicolors most of the natural phenomena in sight between London and Hollywood, including the Grand Canyon and the Painted Desert. Against this setting, young Hindu Cinema Star Sabu, a brown-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...