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...Along with his more prolific brother, Harry B. Smith, who died in 1936, still remembered for his lyrics (They Wouldn't Believe Me; The Sheik of Araby) and librettos (Robin Hood; The Serenade...
...home town by giving it, among other things, 14 schools, an auditorium and an airport. Twice widowed, he was a gloomy, awkwardly bashful man, with no social life to speak of, and one main diversion: breeding Arabian steeds (including Jadaan, ridden by Rudolph Valentino in Son of the Sheik...
...native Talmadge, Neb. answers to the name of Walter Fleischmann-got the role after 1,784 candidates had been interviewed and 493 tested. In training for three years, he smooches, smirks, tangoes, goes through the motions of re-enacting scenes from such Valentino favorites as The Sheik and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He succeeds in looking like Valentino when the camera angle is right; most of the time, he looks like a jowly young man caught in a hopeless hoax...
...Died. Sheik Mohamed Mamoun El Shinawi, 74, rector of Cairo's thousand-year-old El Azhar ("The Resplendent") University, fountainhead of Islamic orthodoxy; in Ismailia, Egypt...
...East Orange High School during the '208, Margaret fought the Scopes trial with her friends (she was on Clarence Darrow's side, in favor of teaching evolution) and secretly read The Sheik. By the time she got to Wellesley, she was writing poetry, soon turned to majoring in economics and talking "in great lofty generalizations and big huge principles ..." She went through Wellesley on scholarship, played basketball on the varsity, and in her senior year was elected head of College Government. "I was serious ... very serious . . . hardly the lighthearted young thing...