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...Saud, ruler of the Nejd. Abdul Aziz ibn Abdur Rahman Al Faisal Al Saud, Knight Grand Commander of the Indian Empire, better known as Ibn Saud, is a towering figure, 6 ft. 4 in. in his sandals. His simplest method of holding tribal loyalties is to marry the sheik's daughter. He has taken to wife over 100 of them in the past ten years, divorced most of them (no disgrace in Arabia). Because he has given up camels for fast bullet-proof motor cars in conducting desert warfare, his favorite wives follow the flag in a close-shuttered...
First serial rights for North and South America went to United Feature Syndicate Inc., whose Syrian-Sheik General Manager Monte Bourjaily outbid King Features, Bell Syndicate, NANA, NEA. United Features promptly resold The Life of Our Lord to enough U. S. newspapers to avoid, giving first publication to a magazine. Book rights went to Simon & Schuster. The Life of Our Lord will start to appear in about 300 U. S. newspapers on March 5, continue in 13 installments of a little more than 1,000 words each. Had he published The Life of Our Lord in 1849, Charles Dickens would...
...with growing interest to his wife's tirade at him for mussing her hair. The Barbarian (M e t r o-Goldwyn- Mayer) contains a personage whose type used to be almost as important in the cinema as the cowboy whom he helped to supplant. He is a sheik wearing a romantic turban, bedsheets and a polite but hungry leer. His name is Jamil (Ramon Novarro) and he is first seen functioning, for reasons of his own, as a guide to tourists in a Cairo hotel. When the proud but passionate fiancee (Myrna Loy) of a swagger young Englishman...
Efforts to dress up the theme-by such touches as this or by having Jamil take himself a shade less seriously than the old sheiks used to do-help, not to modernize the picture, but to give it a certain wistful charm. The memory of Rudolph Valentino is still green in Hollywood. In The Sheik (1921) he coined a U. S. epithet and a mint of money for Paramount. The Barbarian is more than a belated imitation; like some of the songs which Jamil sings it is a plaintive serenade, begging audiences not to forget an old favorite. Most inevitable...
...Eagle and the Hawk (Paramount). What the sheik was to the comparatively repressed cinemaddicts of the early null the aviator is to audiences now. The contemporary hero does not entirely gain by the comparison. He is covered with grease and what he has to say for himself is frequently drowned out by the uproar of machine guns and propellers with which the talkies so constantly belie their name. In this picture routine shots and noises of planes taking off, landing, crashing, planes upside down, on their noses, in hangars or at war with each other serve almost to obliterate...