Word: liva
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SARAH OP THE SAHARA-Walter E. Traprock - Putnam ($2.50). Dr. Traprock, discoverer of the fatu-liva bird and hero of My Northern Exposure, plunges into the passionate sands of the land of the Twin-Bedouins in search of love, adventure and the tomb of Dimitrino the First. His romance with Lady Sarah Wimpole burns like an incandescent lamp. Lions, sheiks and whiffle-hens bar his way, and after quite unbelievable exploits he is left alone with his memories. A take-off on the popular Sheik brand of fiction, adequately mirth-provoking though not quite so good as The Cruise...
...hero, or Waki, the villainous villain. The picture was filmed in the islands and the best of it is where the plot is set aside to allow the natives-of both sexes-to do their stuff. There is a lot of atmosphere-palm trees and Wak-Waks, and Fatu-liva eggs bounding about the screen...