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...managerial contract. Liberia is employing Israeli construction firms on its new $3,500,000 Ducor Palace Hotel, which will be West Africa's finest. Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, who proudly claims some Jewish blood from a chance encounter centuries ago between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, has hired Israeli engineers to build 77 miles of mountain road, and is thinking of getting Israelis to convert his slum-ridden capital, Addis Ababa, into a modern city. Israeli technicians are employed by many African nations to staff hospitals, train military forces, and produce experimental crops...
...Ultimate Question. Of Sanders' various comments on the passing scene, some of the more acid concern the death of Tyrone Power on the Solomon and Sheba set in Spain and the gaudy funeral that followed in Hollywood, where loud cheers greeted Yul Brynner, as if, by replacing Power in the film, "he was somehow making everything all right." When big bald Yul later arrived in Spain, Sanders cattily reports, he brought along twelve leather suits by Dior (six black, six white) and a retinue of seven stooges, one of whom "was permanently occupied in shaving Brynner's skull...
...lawsuits on nearly all who cross her path. Last week she filed libel suits against two Roman Catholic priests who had published an article in the Italian Catholic weekly, Vita Nuova, reporting that when Gina had taken her three-year-old son Milko to a screening of Solomon and Sheba, she had ordered her dance of the seven veils cut from the film. "Thus the actress makes millions marketing her nudity, but doesn't want her son victimized by this market," said the priests, adding that thousands of other ragazzi would not be so protected when the flick hits...
Solomon and Sheba (Edward Small; United Artists), shot in Spain by King (The Big Parade, War and Peace&) Vidor at a cost of $4,000,000, had to be completely remade after the leading man, Tyrone Power, died of a heart attack...
...Bible story (7 Kings 10:1-13) the personal relation between Solomon (Brynner) and Sheba (Gina Lollobrigida) is mercifully accomplished in a clause: "And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, what soever she asked . . ." In the film version this statement is generously translated into two hours of full-color, wide-screen lust, in which all of Solomon's love affairs are lumped into one. In the case of Solomon (700 wives, 300 concubines) this makes quite a lump, but Lollobrigida does her breasty best to fill the part...