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Shown is a most comely lady looking out of a port hole. Now the lady is on the inside looking out. But her admiring sheik is on the outside looking in. All of which is, of course, not uncommon...
...SHEIK SINKING...
...Before the figure of King Henry VIII in Madame Tussaud's Waxworks last week halted His Highness the Sheik of Bahrein, recently decorated by King Edward VIII (TIME. July 6), and loudly exclaimed with a gesture of disdain: "I do not like this big fat man who killed his wives...
...Sheik made a wish his British hosts could not see their way to fulfill. "I should very much like," said His Highness, "to have the Queen Mary come up the Persian Gulf in order that my people might...
...latest reports nothing in London had pleased the Sheik and his sons so much as the Russian Ballet's performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade, an Arabian Nights fantasy in which a Sultana and all her co-wives betray their Sultan on the stage with Negro slaves, afterward are butchered by the Sultan's soldiers. Although cultivated Mayfair and Manhattan consider Scheherezade merely esthetic, the Sheik & Sons watched it with savage joy, their nostrils quivering and eyes bugging as the Negro slaves and fair wives heaved. "The Sheik never mentions his own wives to unbelievers," confided...