Word: karam
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...Elena Karam heads the white members of the cast and turns in a creditable performance, although hampered by poor direction and a Swedish accent, possibly derived from too great admiration of Garbo in the Napoleonic film, "Conquest." Alvin Childress heads the Negro cast in the role of a former slave and the father of Miss Karam. His role is very sympathetic and not very exacting, facts which make him the outstanding figure of the drama. Little can be said for the other actors white or Negro, except that they appear clumsy on the stage and give unnatural emphasis to their...
...successor, Christophe, kept Haiti free, went on to become its president and king, finally killed himself with a gold bullet. Haiti limits itself to Christophe's (Rex Ingram) rebellion against the French, doubles the excitement with a story of a French officer's wife (Elena Karam) whose father is Christophe's Negro...
...Princess Tarhata Karam, the niece of the Sultan of Sulu who attended the University of Illinois, has returned to the Philippines and is now by the side of her husband in the up rising of which he is the head. He is Datu Tahil, a high dignitary of the Moros, a people who have always been rebellious against the American rule; and her presence in the zone of fighting is said to be a serious problem to the Government troops who realize that if they should happen to injure the Princess there would be a general revolution among her people...