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...frequent promise to get out eventually. The treaty ended half a century of British rule, which began with Queen Victoria's forces moving in to protect British citizens and British investments. In the 18603 and 18703, Egyptian Khedive Ismail, a gusty, grandiose ruler who had a harem of 3,000 women, had dreamed vast dreams which he executed with the help of usurious European bankers. They supplied the cash at interest rates ranging up to 40%. He built 9,000 miles of canals, 4,500 schools, and completed the Suez Canal; he also indulged his harem on Paris gowns...
...Search. Hollywood's busy talent scouts, like eunuchs seeking recruits for a vast harem, are still searching high & low-at drug counters and in dramatic schools, at debutantes' parties and in back alleys-for the girl with that irresistible appeal. The girls in the Hollywood harem today are, inch for inch, at least as voluptuous as their predecessors. But that jaded sultan-the U.S. public-has lately been turning his head away with a yawn...
...gave the matter. But Abdullah preferred to satisfy his great ambition-and check his many enemies-through subtler means. He seemed to have a natural knack for the subtle games of power. At Abdul Hamid's court the youngster, who was born and raised (until 10) in a harem, came to realize that the Ottoman Empire was on its way out. He sided with another of history's favorites-then still in her prime-the British Empire. The British in World War I were organizing Arab resistance against Turkish rule in the Middle East; and Abdullah...
...Prince Who Was a Thief (Universal-International) is the kind of frothy, nonalcoholic, Arabian-nights cocktail that Hollywood has shaken up a thousand and one times. Brusque handclaps still bring on the harem dancing girls; Tangier bristles with flashing scimitars, wicked potentates, skulking cutpurses, rococo palaces and phrases...
...green-and-white royal palace at Rabat the Sultan was worried. In the rear courts of the palace and in the harem, there was the subdued sound of women's voices. The rare animals in the Sultan's private zoo grew restive...