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...that the ex-Sultan of Morocco was en route to exile in Tahiti with his wives and a streamlined harem, it was open season on his past in the French press. The government had deposed him for his anti-French activities and his flirtation with Moroccan nationalists. First came stories showing how he had played with the Nazis during the war. Last week France-Soir, the largest daily in Paris (circ. 955,600) broke an exposé of Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef as a "bloody, sadistic Bluebeard." Among France-Soir's sensational charges...
...Harems went ages ago, but the harem mentality lives on," complained another. The former dean of Madrid University's Law School even gave ground. "I see no serious objection to granting women the right to be witnesses to a will," said Don Eloy Montero, "even if they have a reputation of being somewhat talkative . . ." Warned a Catholic priest: "Beware of the many ways of heresy . . . Woman must be, in the words of the Apostles, 'subject to her husband.' " But all in all, Senora Formica felt encouraged...
Life in the Harem. Anyone who participated actively in the early New Deal will no doubt be fascinated by Ickes' closeup view of its harem-like bureaucracy between 1933 and 1936. As a combination court favorite and whipping boy, Ickes had a magnificent opportunity to observe his hero, Franklin Roosevelt, at work and at play, and the diary faithfully reports his intimate relationship with the President. But the Ickes of the caustic quotes and belligerent campaign speeches emerges only occasionally; like most diarists, the author was simply writing a detailed and essentially formless account of his daily life...
...Unlike igor, Kismet's big assist comes from Minsky rather than Rimsky. With a vigorous cootch dance, bare-tummied slave girls paraded "for sale or for rent," and a number of jokes like, "CAll me in the harom; I'll be lying down there," Kismet is often indistringuishable from Harem Nights at the Old Howard. Further debits are abominable lyrics ("We'll coo adien without undue ado"), a script short on humor of any kind, and except for a rather striking bridal procession, elementary and often drab settings by Lemuel Ayers...
...Holy Grotto. When his English triumph wore thin, Joaquin headed back for the U.S., where, after another unsuccessful marriage, he bought 70 acres on a crag high above Oakland, Calif. Here he established "The Rights," part hermitage, part harem, and part reforestation bureau...