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Emir Mohamed Al-Raschid II, Detroit-born, self-styled heir to the Turkish throne and direct descendant of the Prophet, took a right royal beating in a Hollywood divorce court. His commoner wife, a onetime Iowa telephone operator (Marcella Whiting), now the Princess Pareshah, won both her divorce, ("He never earned a cent . . . made me serve him breakfast in bed") and the right to raise their 17-month-old daughter as a Methodist. Mohamed II was horrified, claimed that some 200,000,000 Moslems would be, too. "The Princess," he declared, "belongs to all Islam." His wife's attorneys...
...picture is full of fire, galloping steeds and sword play-most of the playing by copper-torsoed Jon Hall, who plays Haroun-Al-Raschid to Miss Montez' Sherazade. But that is not all. The picture is, besides, an unusually effective Technicolor job. Best shots: the play of sunlight and shadow across the rich bronze desert sands...
...story which Harvard's peripatetic Astronomer Harlow Shapley described as that of "a celestial Harun al-Raschid parading through the heavens in the raiment of a beggar" was related by him last week at a meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Manhattan. Forty years ago a British amateur named Denning spotted a faint blur in the constellation Camelopardus. It was identified as a nebular nucleus, or blob of cosmic matter. This apparently pusillanimous thing was of the twelfth magnitude, far below naked-eye visibility. Astronomers did not bother to name it but set it down...
...Harun-al-Raschid, onetime ruler of Bagdad, made a practice of going about among his citizenry in disguise in order that he might govern them more sympathetically. Of his adventures he told many a tall tale...
Like Harun-al-Raschid and the Mayor of Philadelphia (see p. 15), H. M. Carol II, Rumania's buck-toothed ruler, sorely in need of personal popularity, last week disguised himself and went forth among his people to see how his country was running...