To the perfumed halls of Allah, for their time in the sun And we were stokin' the fires and oilin' up the machinery Until the gods found out we had ideas of our own And war was coming and the earth was shaking And there was no more ruin in the garden of Allah Today I made an appearance downtown I am an expert witness because I say I am Wright. His friend Thomas Wolfe wrote to him, “I’ll be damned if I’ll believe anyone lives in a place called the Garden of Allah”. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4949344-the-garden-of-allah The Garden of Allah survived various changes in management through the 1930s, 40s and into the 50s. General CommentIn his interviews Henley talks about the setting comes from a Hotel referred to as "The Garden of Allah" where the Fitzgerald's and Huxley's of the 1920's frolicked in a Bohemian lifestyle. The expert appearance lines I think are in reference to the media circus of the OJ Simpson trial. It was pretty big year for fashion A lousy year for rock and roll The people gave their blessing to crimes of passion It was a dark, dark night of the collective soul And I was somewhere out on riverside by the el royale hotel With Alice Terry, Iván Petrovich, Marcel Vibert, H.H. To the perfumed halls of Allah, for their time in the sun" "And we were stokin' the fires and oilin' up the machinery Until the Gods found out, we had ideas of our own" And war was coming and the Earth was shaking And there was no more ruin in the Garden of Allah "Today, I made an appearance downtown I am an expert witness because I say I am It could not compete with other hotels – bigger, more lavish, more modern – and in 1959 the decision was made to sell the property. The MGM print has been superbly restored. However by the mid-to-late 1950s the proverbial writing was on the wall. https://www.amazon.com/Garden-Allah-Robert-Hichens/dp/1589636325 The palette is warm and rich without looking oversaturated as was the case with many other Technicolor films of the same era. (The way Technicolor is used in "The Garden of Allah" makes "Gone With the Wind" look garish by comparison.) The Garden of Allah being the last place you would deem suitable for a writer to stay sober and create a disciplined life, also became one of the final homesteads of F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1937. Directed by Rex Ingram. "The Garden of Allah" is a visually stunning film. The Garden of Allah at Sunset and Crescent Heights was first the early twentieth century estate of Russian actress Alla Nazimova (the pool was in … Lyrics to 'The Garden Of Allah' by Don Henley. Allah has promised to the believing men and the believing women gardens… Beauty, mathematics, architecture, spirituality, poetry, botanic sensibility, hydraulics, biodiversity… but at the same time it also hides the secret of islam, and all the gifts in this world and in the next: Father Adrien had taken the vows of eternal silence, prayer and, of course, celibacy, when he entered the Trappist Monastry of Notre Dame d'Afrique in Algeria. One day, he chopped down a tree that blocked a part of the Monastery wall, but as it fell it knocked a young girl senseless.