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...your issue of TIME, May 25, I notice on p. 64, in your section devoted to Books, you give a short review of Behind Moroccan Walls by Henriette Celarié. Mme Celarié states that this is a collection of true stories and sketches and forthwith you narrate the incident about the woman who had succeeded in cuckolding her husband, returns too late one night, to find him awake, angry, suspicious, herself locked out. Pretending despair, she says she will drown herself in the well if he does not open the door; throws a big stone down the well...
...intention was known. They were married "privately" in the sense that Moses Cohen's apartment is above a restaurant and a modiste shop and all Moses Cohen's window curtains were tightly drawn "because of the heat." There being no rabbi in Spain, the service was performed by a Moroccan banker, Rabbi Menahan Corias...
...BEHIND MOROCCAN WALLS-Henriette Celarie; translated & adapted by Constance Lily Morris-Macmillan ($5). Mme Celarie, wife of a French officer in Morocco, whiled away long garrison days by finding out what she could about Moroccan women. From the two books which she wrote (Amours Morocaines, La Vie Mysterieuse des Harems) Translator Constance Lily Morris, herself a sojourner in Morocco, has culled this collection of true stories and sketches. Macmillan has printed it in a big folio; Artist Boris Artzybasheff has illustrated it in sumptuous black & white...
...aphrodisiac Arabian tales, these sketches are almost feminist documents. Author Celarie tells only what Moroccan women told her about their shut-in lives. Batoul's husband wanted to divorce her, nagged her to admit she had a lover till in desperation she fell into the trap. His concealed lawyer-witnesses made the divorce. Batoul was sent away; when her son was born he was taken from her; she never...
...will be lucky to win 80 seats out of 400 in June. Three things, said he, may split the Republicans, make possible a restoration of the monarchy in the not too near future: the growth of Communism and Syndicalism, the separation of Catalonia and the Basque provinces, an unpopular Moroccan policy. But to start the ball rolling, a united Royalist front is imperative...