Word: harems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Babes in Bagdad (Danziger Bros.; United Artists), a film with a harem setting, is a case of boy meets girls. The ladies of the cadi of Bagdad's harem want to prove that women are the equals of men-and that each is thus entitled to a gentleman of her own. Led by Harem Beauties Paulette Goddard and Gypsy Rose Lee and aided by the caliph's dashing godson (Richard Ney), who believes in limiting his affections to "one woman for all time," they strike a blow for Eastern feminism...
...result, murkily photographed in a process called Exotic Color, is a harem-scarum movie featuring girls in Arabian nighties, goats-milk baths, and raids on caravans laden with gold. The dialogue seems more Hollywood than Bagdad. Sample: "Sire, I have uncovered such crimes as will tear this town wide open...
...wife will prescribe for the monarch's four legal wives" and his ample harem. She will have to observe local ground rules and wear a veil when out of doors...
...Slumping Harem. The ocean bred its gay as well as its devil dogs. One of the gayest, Alexander Hare, a rich English trader, settled on one of the beautiful atolls of the Cocos-Keeling Islands in 1827 with a slave harem of 117 beauties from Malaya, Java, Bali and points east. A former partner and prior claimant, John Clunies-Ross, a Scot, soon showed up with his family and a crew of predatory bachelors. To keep them out of what he called his "flower garden," the latter-day Solomon ladled out rum to Ross's men, penned his women...
Nonetheless, the harem population soon slumped to 40, in eight years was wheedled away entirely. The redoubtably lecherous Hare left to round up another harem, but new laws against slavery stymied him. Ross stayed on to become King of the Islands, a title held today by 23-year-old John Clunies-Ross V (TIME, Sept. 3), thanks to the 999-year charter that Queen Victoria granted Ross...