Word: harem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with hurricanes, dynamiting, death, and a happy ending. The Turkmen are virtual slaves of the cruel heavy, a Bey with a sneer and black waxed mustachios; the Musselmen laboriously draw water from deep wells for the garden of fig-trees and lettuce which laps Aman the Bey and his harem in luxury. But John Reed Turkman writes to the Reds, who come five strong on a thundering locomotive to water the desert. They brave the storms of the waste, the scorching sun, and the sinister Bey, and the rest is simple...
...Nilla Cram Cook. She arrived from Greece where she took part in the Delphic festival and where she spent two years in a Sisters of Charity convent accustoming herself to the contemplative life. Beauteous, of classic mold, she is the first U. S. addition to the Mahatma's platonic harem. She speaks Indo-Aryan and other Oriental languages, recently made a novel of her own eventful life. Her father was the late George Cram ("Jig") Cook, author, playwright, onetime director of the Provincetown Players, who, successively the husband of Sara Herndon Swain, Mollie A. Price, Playwright Susan Glaspell (Allison...
...have something to discuss with the dastard, extorter. mass-murderer and Champion Bad Chinaman. Marshal Chang's behavior in Japan has been exemplary except for having shot, from the window of his hotel, the ex-Emperor of China's cousin, suspected of having fiddled about in the Marshal's harem...
...convincing as the suggestion, supplied by a peer of the realm in a pamphlet recently put out by the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, that the stag deserves to be hunted because 'he is a selfish old fellow, much addicted to the pleasures of the table and the harem'-which might involve us in hunting some of the landed gentry as well as the old-age pensioners...
Kismet (First National Pictures Inc.). Everything that the Warner-controlled First National company might have been expected to do to a play whose principal sets are laid in the Caliph's harem in Bagdad has been done to Kismet, except one ? there is no color. That, from an industrial point of view, is important and interesting, for every sequence might have been built for a color-camera. The Warners have decided that in spite of its tremendous cost color brought in nothing at the box office; for the time being they have stopped using it. The only remaining element...