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...Back with her parents in Ethiopia, she worked to teach her father's people to avoid filth and disease. She could appear among the tribal chiefs under the yellow umbrellas, talk to them of sanitation and of germs, devising Amharic words to fit her needs. She married Colonel Abiy Abbaba of her father's victorious army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Sheba's Child | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...live wire of the production is Julius H. Marx. His aura is that of the Five Points, and his language is the patois of the unwashed, but he makes things go with a bang; and a refined Boston audience laughed with him continuously for two hours and seventeen minutes. Abiy assisted by his partners, he is the life of the party, even when playing opposite Miss Carlotta Miles' un-conecious rendition of La Gioconda...

Author: By G. P. I, | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/13/1925 | See Source »

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