Word: harem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publicity of late owing to the successful business visit of Senor Luis Angel Firpo. Japan and China have been veterans since The Mikado. The Negro rage and the grass-skirt scare are already moribund. Spain and the clatter of castanets is gone. Covered with dust are the crinoline, the harem skirt, Scotch kilts. The stage of the American revue is rapidly approaching the end of the world. Without other worlds to conquer, Russia, Egypt and the influence of dusky Florence Mills must inevitably conquer the American stage...
...beauty which he finds blooming beneath a nearby dune. His bride is carried off by a wolf in the Sheik's clothing. Needless to say, a small menagerie of camels, ostriches and lions join happily in the chase which terminates in the private swimming pool of the Sheik's harem...
...Effendi, cousin of Mohammed and heir to the Sultanate, to the Caliphate. The ex-Sultan then made his escape on a British warship and was later landed at Madeira, whence he accepted the hospitality of King Hussein. In the confusion of his flight he was compelled to leave his harem in Constantinople...
...went to preside over a satrap's strange eastern household. She lived there for several years. As a powerful white functionary's wife, she moved as a great person among the potentates of the oriental island. She tells of living as an honored guest in the harem of the Sultan of Solo. The orient entered her spirit. Of course, she studied the strange and subtle music of the Javanese. She returned to the West, to America, and re-began the career that her marriage had broken off by giving a series of recitals in which she featured Javanese...
Divorced. Jagat Jit Singh Bahadur, Maharajah of Kaparthala, by Anita Delgado, in Paris, presumably on the grounds of white civilization's objection to his harem. It is reported that the Maharanee, who is 35, Spanish and a professional dancer, will marry her 30-year-old stepson, the Maharajah's heir...