COMBINES LAUGHS WITH ROMANCE
• A NIGHT IK CAIRO ’ FOR REGENT Announced as a rich combination of laughs and romance, Ramon IS’ovarro’s latest M-G-M starring attraction, ‘ A Night in Cairo,’ will be shown at the Regent to-morrow. The cast includes, besides the star, Myrna Loy, Reginald Denny, Louise Glosser Halo, C. Aubrey Smith, and Edward Arnold. Tho story is a particularly diverting one. Jamil is a handsome young guide to the sights of tho Nile. Rich women tourists find him irresistible, and pay him well for bis services. One day there arrives in Cairo Diana, young. English, beautiful, to marry Reginald Denny, a young aqueduct engineer. Jamil insinuates himself into her party. Diana finds him strangely charming, being particularly intrigued by an Arabic.' song he sings. She feels his appeal to bo dangerous, and abruptly leaves Cairo for Gerald’s aqueduct with her own caravan and another dragoman. Jamil catches up with her, declares his love, and is whipped in the face. Enraged, Jamil leads her caravan to a point where she escapes, only to come to the oasis castle of Achmed, who has desired her. Jamil accepts pay for this service, and starts to leave, when Diana calls for him. Conscience-stricken, he contrives her escape and boats down their enemies.' He makes love to her in tho long days before they roach his tribe. There they arc in the midst of the marriage service when Diana shows her contempt of him by desecrating the tribal rites. Ho permits her to return to Cairo. As she prepares to ho married to Gerald she hoars the song of the hunted Jamil. The call is too great , . . she goes to tho man she really loves.
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Evening Star, Issue 21570, 16 November 1933, Page 15
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