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Last week King Ibn Saud, feeling sorry for his guests, sent each Arab League delegate a hand-picked bondmaiden from his harem. Conscientious, westernized Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, secretary general of the Arab League and head of the delegation, politely but firmly declined the offer. Said Azzam Pasha: "It would keep the delegates' minds off the purpose of their mission...
...rooster, for a cock will fight to the death with any other male fowl he meets. Because no two cocks can be turned loose on the same walk (yard) without fighting, chicken men parcel their roosters out on as many as 40 neighboring farms, where they boss a small harem of hens until three weeks before a fight...
...finds a deeply religious answer to its own questions, American religious groups have unanimously blasted it. The picture places a group of Anglican nuns in a remote part of the Himalayas, where Western morality and religion simply do not exist. Their convent has once been a local emperor's harem, their patron is the conscience-stricken emperor, who pays his subjects to go the convent, and the nuns are a group of mortals, frightened by the strange place but determined to fulfill their duties and to care for the people. The lascivious atmosphere works steadily to erode their layer...
Black Narcissus (Rank, Universal-International) is the curious story of some Anglican nuns who, in the interests of healing and teaching the Himalayan natives, are sent to establish a new convent in an abandoned mountain harem...
...country, the tragicomic chaos of the days of Toussaint, Henri Christophe and Dessalines. Lydia's standout character: King Dick, giant, uninhibited Sudanese ex-slave who figured in Author Roberts' The Lively Lady and who swaggers happily around Haiti with pearls as big as birds' eggs, a harem of doting wives and a 5-ft. bamboo shillelagh. Lydia Bailey is the stuff that sells, but doesn't survive...