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Kismet (First National Pictures Inc.). Everything that the Warner-controlled First National company might have been expected to do to a play whose principal sets are laid in the Caliph's harem in Bagdad has been done to Kismet, except one ? there is no color. That, from an industrial point of view, is important and interesting, for every sequence might have been built for a color-camera. The Warners have decided that in spite of its tremendous cost color brought in nothing at the box office; for the time being they have stopped using it. The only remaining element...
...Author. The Sassoons, rich, prominent Anglo-Jewish family (they are supposed to have originated in Bagdad) are said to resemble early Assyrian wall sculptures. Siegfried, 44, is son of Sir Edward Sassoon, Anglo-Indian merchant whose father-in-law was Baron Gustave de Rothschild. Siegfried's cousin Philip was Under-Secretary for Air. Tall, bony, loosely built, he has a big jaw, nose, ears, hands; speaks usually in a slow, troubled voice. After his country gentleman's education at Marlborough and The House (Christ Church, Oxford), he spent his time mostly hunting, playing cricket, tennis, music, printed a few poems...
...odoriferous Bagdad last week Sir Francis Humphrys, British High Commissioner, courteously received a gladsome group of Iraq Cabinet Ministers who entered beaming in their beards...
...would go by train across the Transcaucasian S. F. S. R. to Baku. There he would ship down the Caspian to Barfrush, going overland to Teheran. Had he traveled through countries officially recognized by the U. S., his route would have taken him to Damascus, with a flight to Bagdad or perhaps by water around Arabia and up to the head of the Persian Gulf...
Prime Minister SirAbdul Muhsin shot and killed himself in the presence of his family at Bagdad last week. He left a sealed letter telling why, which his son refused for several days to open...