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Peacetime Ramadan in Egypt had children, rich and poor, wandering from house to house swinging red and green lanterns from poles, singing for candy and food. "Joy, oh joy," they would sing, "the Sultan's daughter is wearing a robe of bright scarlet red, bright lemon yellow. Oh, give to me as is your custom, and a very happy New Year to you." Now there is war: parents will not let their children out in the blackout; villagers do not like to give away any of their expensive, rationed food...
...screen Ernest Hemingway's most delicate episodes, the nights that Jordan and Maria spend together in a sleeping robe, are expertly elusive. Paramount's answer to one wag's question, whether the Hays Office would let sleeping bags lie, is: Yes, but don't go near the water. The closest study cannot determine whether either or both the lovers are or are not in or out of the bag at any time...
...club's own members-"a people's book club organized to provide books selected by the people for the people." The first pre-Gallup selection: Marcia Davenport's best-selling novel Valley of Decision. First premium (for joining): Lloyd Douglas' best-selling The Robe...
...numbers, than they did in World War I. The current national best-seller list includes two novels with religious themes. Jewish refugee Franz Werfel's Song of Bernadette (a story of Our Lady of Lourdes) has sold over 500,000 copies. Protestant Minister Lloyd C. Douglas' The Robe (a story of Christ's passion) has sold 240,000 copies...
...output of original and talented Djuna Barnes consists of a total of six paintings and six peculiar books. The Portrait of Alice is a full-length study of a woman in a burgundy robe standing against a background of gold. It suggests the quality as well as the style of the great Italian primitives. Asked last week how she came to paint Alice (1934), Djuna Barnes said: "I asked myself one day, why not paint a painting? ... I painted most of it on my hands & knees, because I couldn't afford an easel...