Word: sheiks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jewish Telegraph Agency alarmed from Jerusalem: "A force led by Sheik Ed Dowilsh with 1,400 camels is marching toward Irak. . . . Twenty-two [British] airplanes and seven tanks have been despatched to the frontier of Transjordania to protect the territory from . . . Ibn Saud...
...handy with a sword that when a fat old sheik, bargaining over a contract with the French Government, suggests a clause which will present him with the possession of a beautiful American woman, Major Beaujolais dares to refuse with equable asperity. Then there are several reels of sharp sabre-play, sand, and mine explosions. Lastly, the old sheik accepts a contract which omits the tur-pitudinous Santa clause; the lady properly rewards her sabreur...
...cast includes many incongruous but no unsuccessful impersonations. Noah Beery is the lascivious old sheik, and highly satisfactory as such. Evelyn Brent, who plays opposite Emil Jannings in The Last Command (TIME, Jan. 30), does well indeed as the somewhat helpless heroine. Gary Cooper is lanky and effective as the able Major Henri de Beaujolais. The sand of the desert, a by no means unimportant element, is seen to fine effect, either snapping its angry yellow veil in the windy darkness, puffing smokily into the air after an explosion, or merely lying still under the sun like a quilt...
...Sheik. The dreary monotony of male sheiks who gallop along the hot snows of the desert is made agreeably absurd by a reversal of formula. The beautiful Zaida (Bebe Daniels) kidnaps one Captain Colton (Richard Arlen). This, after a long interval of comic complications, leads to a war with the native Arabians who are repulsed by an adroit insertion of machina in machina. On the sandy screen of white desert dunes, Zaida causes a newsreel, showing a vast army on the march, to be projected. Not used to this kind of mirage, the Arabs surrender rapidly just before the newsreel...
Richard Arlen, as the abducted officer, is sufficient for the part, and William Powell plays well the half-comedy role of hostile sheik and would-be bride-snatcher. The comedy is administered by two Americans with a movie camera, but Miss Daniels's antics dominate every episode. Much sword-play, swinging from chandeliers and tapestries, plus the movie machinery dispute the ultimate Bedouin attack, as the masculine hero engages a firing-squad. The picture is well produced and the photography is excellent, and the hero-heroine combines a mild Valentino and Fairbanks quite successfully...