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Married. Sidi Muley Hassan ben el Mehedi, 42, Caliph of Spanish Morocco; and Princess Lal-La Fatima Zohora Bent Muley, 22, British-educated, tradition-flouting (she never covers her face, Moorish fashion) daughter of the late Sultan of Morocco; each for the first time (his concubines do not count); in a three-week-long, $600,000 ceremony financed by the Spanish government (Franco gave the newlyweds a $200,000 home); in Tetuan, Spanish Morocco...
Blonde Cinemactress Virginia Mayo, 26, appeared to two men to be the answer to a problem. "The Sultan of Morocco told [her] that she was for him the most striking proof of God's existence," said the Rev. A. J. Long, 29-year-old bachelor pastor of Britain's Southwark Unitarian Church. "Why not?" mused Pastor Long. "The beauty of woman is a revelation...
Outpost in Morocco (United Artists) is an unlikely yarn, in a desert setting, about some fussin' and feudin' between the French Foreign Legion and the Arabs. Its hero is Legionnaire George Raft, a man with an eye for Arab beauty, who falls in love with the Paris-bred daughter (Marie Windsor) of a rebel chieftain. He is finally obliged, pour la patrie, to dynamite her to kingdom come, along with a large group of her compatriots. Outpost's most dramatic feature: some authentic shots of the Atlas Mountains in French Morocco...
...floating along the Rhine in a Falt-boot, Night and Day on the beach at Newport, and It's DeLovely on the high seas,. His songs have felt the influence of his wanderings. What Is This Thing Called Love? was suggested by a native dance in Morocco's Marrakech, and he developed the music of Begin the Beguine from a war-dance chant he heard in Kalabahi, a small island in the Netherlands Indies (he had already got the title idea from a Martinique cafe in Paris...
...opulent glow of El Morocco's Champagne Room in Manhattan, sat a swarthy pop-eyed man with a vast double chin. His companion was a beautiful young woman. "My dear," he was heard to say, "you just don't know what I could...