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HOLLYWOOD
SOLDIERS OF FORTONE
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The most fabulous movie script isn't equal to these spine-tingling true
stories of movietown's men of action
BY LOWELL THOMAS
A thrilling escape from Red Russia is only one episode in Ivan Lebedeff's amazing career
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A BEWILDERING place, Hollywood There are enough unwritten true-liii stories right on the lots to make excitinj plots for innumerable pictures for years to com'] Whenever you see a picture of action and derl ring-do, you can be sure at least one member c the cast is acting a scene which is no more amaz ing or fabulous than one he has experienced i his own life.
From time to time, the screen affords me, vi cariously, some curious experiences. One them occurred when I saw "Under Two Flags. One face flashed into view that seemed vaguel familiar. It suggested, not Hollywood am make-believe, but that far-off golden fall day i; 1918 when the tanned and weatherbeaten troop of Field Marshal Allenby and Lawrence c Arabia made their triumphal entry into Da mascus. I also associated the face with grape vine stories of official and diplomatic intrigue Hadn't I seen that face on the terrace of Shep ard's, the famous hotel in Cairo?
As a matter of fact, I had. Just the other da; I learned the face belonged to a young Arab o distinguished origin. In the list of dramati personae in "Under Two Flags," his name wa, Jamiel Hassen. When I saw him that day in th< Syrian capital, he was Jamiel Ben Khyatt, i handsome, black-eyed youth of sixteen. Dur ing the campaigns in Mesopotamia during th> first part of the War, Jamiel and his broth ers, famous horsemen all of them, had beei forced to serve in the Turkish cavalry. Alliec propaganda induced them to desert and offe their services to the British. Jamiel became ai intelligence officer. Afterwards, in Cairo, hi was pointed out to me as one of the dashing irreconcilables, known to have taken part in thi perilous military and diplomatic undercove: activities incident to the formation of the Aral state, transplanting into action their hatrec against the broken promises of the Treaty o Versailles.
He had had a wide education acquired partlj in America, partly in France. After further adventures in Africa, and later in Brazil, he gravitated to Hollywood where he is called in as i technical director on many sequences of film: that are laid in Asia Minor. He occasionally acts in pictures, too.