Word: sidi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More trivial things than torn theatre posters have caused serious riots in Tangier. Diagonally across the strait from British-owned Gibraltar, Tangier is nominally under the rule of boyish Sidi Mohammed, Sultan of Morocco. Actually it is ruled by an unwieldy international board composed of a French administrator with Spanish, British and Italian assistants. International feeling is high; Administrator Paul Alberge sent detectives to watch the alley between the French and Spanish cinemas...
Divorced. The Princess Sidi Wirt Spreckels Chakir, onetime Kansas farm-girl, onetime San Francisco cafe entertainer; from Suad Bey Chakir, Turkish potentate, her third husband; at Reno. Grounds: failure to provide. A month ago -he won a $5,000 slander suit from Turkish Princess Chivekar, who mentioned her in a divorce action against Selim...
...Sidi Wirt Spreckels Chakir, in Reno to divorce Turkish Prince Suad Bey Chakir, heard that she had won a $5,000 damage suit against Egyptian Princess Chivekar who had named her in a divorce suit. Born on a Kansas Farm, Sidi Wirt married and divorced Harry Williams, Kansas City newspaperman, married Sugarman John D. Spreckels, inherited his estate, married Prince Chakir in Constantinople in 1923, has figured in Eu- ropean news as Cabaret Dancer Saida Worth, lately as Mme. Saida...
When the Law or a woman has pinioned a man, let him wriggle out and flee to Sidi-bel-Abbes, Algeria. From that headquarters of the French Foreign Legion he can go forth a bleu, with wages of six cents per month in his pocket, and no fear of extradition. His lot will be a sandy purgatory of heat, fever, mosquitoes, mangy beasts and tribesmen foes who fight like jackals-but there will be "no questions asked". . . . Such a life attracts not only fugitives, but honest youths athirst for adventure. Such a life attracted Bennett J. Doty of Biloxi, Miss...
...answer came a story, of the final dialog, last week, between Mr. Doty (known in the Legion as Gilbert Clare) and his commander, Colonel Rollet, at Sidi-bel-Abbes. M. le Colonel, choleric, began by reminding Mr. Doty that he ought to have been shot for desertion, then went on to praise him for certain acts of gallantry. Finally Colonel Rollet cried: "Clare, you are returning to America; you know there has been a film made there, Beau Geste, reviling the Foreign Legion...