The Brass Bottle

Harold Ventimore's life is not going well, professionally or personally. As an architect working for William Beevor's firm, he has not brought in any clients of his own, and Beevor does not think highly of him. He and his beautiful fiancee Sylvia Kenton are very much in love, but her parents don't think much of him, especially her Egyptologist father Anthony Kenton, who considers him too bohemian for their conservative sensibilities. At an auction, Harold purchases what he believes is an authentic kumkum--an ancient Arabian brass bottle--as a gift for the Kentons to get on their good side, but at the last minute he has a feeling it's a fake and keeps it for himself. When he uncorks it, he unleashes Fakrash Al-Amash, a genie who has been trapped inside for 3,000 years. Fakrash's mission is to serve Harold as his new master for unleashing him from his confines. But more often than not, instead of helping Harold, Fakrash's hocus-pocus causes turmoil--especially as if Harold ever tells the truth about being served by a genie, he might be declared insane.