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...invades the Sahara, acquires sovereignty over a native tent colony, marries the American beauty which he finds blooming beneath a nearby dune. His bride is carried off by a wolf in the Sheik's clothing. Needless to say, a small menagerie of camels, ostriches and lions join happily in the chase which terminates in the private swimming pool of the Sheik's harem...
...inspiration came from the phenomenal success of the Citroen cars, equipped with Citroen-Kegrasse caterpillar treads, in crossing the Sahara last February, 1,600 miles of sand in 20 days...
...picture is one to fire the imagination, it also touches the funny bone. The Conquest of the Sahara, the Desert giving up its Secrets, Months of Careful Planning and Preparation,--and five earnest-faced Frenchmen sitting stiffly at the wheels of their caterpillars, staring straight ahead and bumping over the sand at ten miles an hour. It is a delightfully incongruous blending of poetry and prose, of the sublime and the ridiculous. Phineas Fogg himself, with all his mathematical intensity of purpose, would never have girdled the earth from North to South instead of from East to West...
...Earl Benham, singing "Good-bye Sunshine, Hello, Moon"; and "The Lady of the Pyramids" with an Egyptian dance by Vanda Hoff may be picked as a few of the many delightful bits in the entertainment. As for music, "I love the Land of Old Black Joe" and "My Sahara Rose" give melody. The Acrobats, Messeurs Regal and Moore, at first burlesque their profession in an amusing manner and then prove themselves to be performers of unusual ability, Lillian Fitzgerald, appearing as a Parisian and later as an Irish Colleen kept up the atmospheres of surprise and showed an excellent sense...
...Belles."--W. V. M. Fawcett, W. H. Cary, Jr., B. D. Williams, W. A Duerr, A. Beebe, C. N. Macdonald, W. B. Leach, Jr., E. V. Otis, F. S. Church, C. J. Young, W. H. Kenyon, Jr., J. C. Burchard. Room 16, "Paracelsus"--T. C. Greene; rooms 17-28, "Sahara," A. French, G. Sutton, H. Perrin, J. R. Morss, P. E. Jackson, R. A. Morse, W. Fuller, C. F. Allen, Jr., H. A. Houghton, C. A. Page, J. Fiske, H. P. Taggard; rooms 29-32, "Kram-Kronies,"--G. W. Howe, C. H. Warner, R. E. Henderson, T. L. Bancroft...