Word: sheiks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bella Donna. Pola Negri's first American picture is, except for the continuously electric Pola, just another vampire-film, deodorized as much as possible to please the censor. There's a sheik and an English nobleman and a little box of poison and a desert with a prowling lion-and none of it matters very much. Except when Pola appears. Daddy. A blatant assault upon the lachrymal glands, with a few snatches of inimitable comedy by young Mr. Coogan. He is, as you may have guessed, a downtrodden little boy-violinist in search of his long-lost daddy...
Popular opinion, generally the collective term for vague, often incorrect, knowledge, lumps Arabs and Turks together as one people. The same authoritative source is responsible for the traditional idea that the Arab is an unambitious, emotional nomed good as the inspiration for a "Sheik" and excuse for a Valentino. This popular opinion has prevailed to such an extent that the Arab, like the Turk, has been discounted as a ruler, in the case of Palestine for a recent example, in the belief that he has little aptitude for much beyond tent-life and pillaging...
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...play centers about "Efficiency." Jones, and up-to-the -Minute private secretary of great ingenuity but no social prominence, who is put in charge of his employer's pearl fisheries in Arabia. To secure a better hold on his trade he deposes the sheik of the district and sets up a municipal government according to his own ideas--with traffic police for the prevention of camel collision, and bewitching but strike-loving force of stenographers and telephone girls...