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General Hure could have ended the "war" at once by sending a few bombing planes over the valleys, turning them into poison gas traps. But he knew that his enemy was brave and honorable, that such a massacre would have sown rebellion in Morocco for decades to come. He chose the harder job of forcing a straightforward surrender. In their strongholds, the leaders kept the Berbers at a pitch by preaching "Death before surrender." The French began a tedious, hazardous prowling up the peaks, picking off snipers. In one desperate skirmish they killed the Berber Generalissimo Sidi Ben Ahmed. Some...
...bare hands and turned it on the Government forces in overthrowing President Billinghurst in 1914. In 1921 they shot him full of holes again when he captured Lima in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow President Leguia. In semi-exile abroad he served with the Spanish Foreign Legion in Morocco, was wounded; served with the Italian army in 1925, took advanced military studies in France in 1926. In 1930 came one more revolution and he swept into office, a popular hero, promptly acted like all the Dictators before him, was kicked out, came back legally elected in 1931. His most recent...
...author of the plot has taken the idea of "Thirteen Women," which crime club addicts remember as the grisly melodrama of Frauenzimmer from a sorority who were all condemned to die mysteriously one after the other. This ingenious device is applied to five gentlemen traveling in Morocco, who impolitely resist the demands of an old beggar for baksheesh, and are therefore cursed with a fate which shall overtake them in order before the next phase of the moon. But the logical French mind can allow no such supernatural fakirs to succeed. One man dies, a newspaper reports the death...
...film, which describes the adventures of a rich French traveler in Morocco, has been adapted from one of the most famous novels of the French modern school. Vandal-Delac, one of the best producers in Europe, who also directed "Le Bal" which the Committee presented last month, has taken charge of the production. The plot hinges about the efforts of an unscrupulous blackmailer to intimidate a wealthy young Frenchman into giving him a large sum of money. The photography is particularly good, every scene having been filmed in Morocco. The local color of the country is effectively brought...
...teeth. As an artist, Bernard Boutet de Monvel absorbed everything but his father's sly sense of humor. Fifty years old. almost theatrically handsome, his life sounds like the day dreams of a Harvard freshman. During the War he served with distinction as an aviator in France, Macedonia. Morocco, where he had time to paint a number of most effective landscapes. He was decorated with the Legion of Honor, but, a sincere Royalist, he scorns the boutonniere as a relic of the Corsican upstart Napoleon. Shortly after the War he married Delfina Edwards-Bello, beautiful daughter of a wealthy...