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...From Marseille to Casablanca [Morocco] all our lights were burning," he reported. "It was beautiful weather and the trip was perfectly darling." His memory of the trip across the Atlantic this summer on the Portuguese ship: "I have crossed the Atlantic 13 times and this was the best trip of all. It was perfectly delicious. All the lights were on and we had dancing on deck every night. . . ." He said that both the Germans and the British authorized the voyage...
...Temptingly before the British was the long African coast in Rommel's rear: Spanish Morocco, France's North Africa and Tunis, all of which would raise major diplomatic problems. Italy's Tripoli and Rommel's own Cyrenaica (Bengasi) could be the target of a sudden blow to cut the rear communications of the Afrika Korps...
Patriot, adventurer and scalawag, McGuinness has run rum into the U.S., guns into Ireland for the I.R.A. and into Morocco for the Riffs. In the days of the Trouble he rescued Frank Carty, now government whip, from Londonderry jail, later accompanied Admiral Byrd to the South Pole...
...Moslems. A bomb exploded last week on a crowded dockside in Tangier, Spanish Morocco, 40 miles southwest of Gibraltar. When the smoke cleared away, 25 persons lay dead, 60 hurt. The bombs blew apart the luggage of a departing British official. As if by magic, yelling Arabs appeared from nowhere with baskets filled with rocks, began stoning the windows of British business houses. To the radio hopped Axis spokesmen, claiming that the exploded luggage had disgorged British propaganda. London called the episode an obvious Axis trick...
Shanghai Gesture is notable for its inexcusably bad acting and directing. Magniloquent Director Josef von Sternberg (once plain Joe Stern of Queens) apparently spent a million or so dollars trying to repeat his former success in turning Marlene Dietrich into the screen's No. 1 siren (Blue Angel, Morocco, etc.). He succeeds merely in making Gesture an unexciting series of close-ups of Miss Tierney, a nice, pretty, corn-fed American girl of 21, who is too young and inexperienced for her part...