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...Singing Boys, he will present a comic dancer named Trudi Schoop and her ballet from Switzerland. He is advertising first U. S. tours for Negro Contralto Marian Anderson, Russian Pianist Rudolf Serkin, the Kolisch String Quarte from Germany, and a Palestinian, Sarah Osnath-Halevy, who dances and chants in Arabian, Yemenite, Sephardic and Persian...
This notably appeared at Mocha, Red Sea port of the Arabian land of Yemen. Its ruler, the Imam, has been pressed by Italy for weeks to permit Mocha to be used as a port for hospitalization and convalescence of Italian soldiers stricken with tropical diseases in Eritrea. Last week an Italian Naval flotilla sailed into Mocha to exert further pressure, whereat the Imam, wasting no time in appeals to Geneva, begged directly for British help. In a few hours British war boats from Aden raced into Mocha, overawed the Italian flotilla which withdrew. The British returned to Aden. Two days...
...Arab revolt that Lawrence directed, and for whose success he received credit, was in the making long before he arrived in Arabia. When Lawrence, in order to get to Arabia, engineered his release from work in the intelligence service in Cairo, the Arabian revolt had prematurely broken out, was hampered by lack of direction, lack of leadership, lack of military experience. These factors Lawrence and his associates supplied. Choosing Feisal, grave, tactful son of the Sherif of Mecca, as the best of the Arab leaders, Lawrence developed tactics that his friend Liddell Hart, English military expert, later characterized as those...
From the stair pillars frown two enormous busts composed of seven kinds of marble and believed to represent unidentified Arabian characters. Another treasure is the largest piece of Dresden pottery in the world. Dazzling curtains from Baghdad, authentic 18th Century French and Turkish furniture, and a display of solid silver plate bought by Sir Samuel's grandfather a century ago adorn a ménage which the Hoares find cozy...
Returning with this good news to the famished Ruala, the party was attacked by raiders in three automobiles from yet another hostile tribe. Modern Arabian raiders travel in big cars, shoot high-powered rifles and race off like satanic hit-&-run drivers in a motorist's nightmare. Although the Ruala ambassadors killed the crews of the raiding automobiles, Faris was terribly wounded with two bullets in his breast. Carl Raswan wanted to take him to Damascus to a French surgeon, but the dying man demanded to be taken directly to Tuema. They were married the next night...