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Died. Eddie Foy, 70, famed well-loved buffoon, star of Cinderella (1889), Sinbad, Ali-Baba, and many another early musical comedy, hero of the Iroquois Theatre fire when he was the last man to leave the stage; of heart disease; in Kansas City, Mo., while on a farewell vaudeville tour...
...program follows: 1. Overture to "Ali Baba" Cherubini 2. Concerto in D Major, Opp 77 Brahms 3. Prelude to a Drama Schreker 4. "Mazeppa", Symphonic Poem No. 6 Liszt...
...perhaps half a mile, he reached (he said) a large, lighted chamber whence six other tunnels burrowed further into the mountain. Commanding the chamber was a monster urn up which the curious Bedouin clambered to peer in. Within?yes, the veritable heaps of gems and gold of Ali Baba's "Open, Sesame" story. Knotting a clutch of treasure in his burnoose, he next chipped a crack in his prison's rose-red sandstone wall, widening it to a passage which brought him out high on the slope above the valley of Petra. . . . The interest of treasure-hunters in his fabulous...
...picturesque figure was my new henchman; clad in a spotted and ragged old army tunle that carried the ribbons for the Croix de Guerre and several campaigns, he marched through the crowd without turning to the right or left. Exsergeant Harida baba Fassaltoui must have been very nearly six feet, six inches fall, with tremendously powerful shoulders and arms, which, contrasted with his thin and week-looking legs, made him look top-heavy. Most Arabs seem to have weak legs and very small feet, probably because of the fact that their ancestors invariably rode if they had distance to travel...
This paper was not surprised yesterday when its Limerick Contest idea was pounced upon with desperate rapidity by the direct descendants of Ali Baba and his forty thieves on the New York Journal...