Word: bagdad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government known; and its success is undoubtedly determined in ratio to the political consciousness of the people. When, however, representative government is introduced into backward countries whose populace is for the most part ignorant and whose leaders are often corrupt, it becomes nothing short of a farce. At Bagdad, capital of Iraq, officials decided to postpone a general election for the first national parliament. The circumstances were unique; The population of the country-man, woman and child-is not more than 3,000,000; of these, only male subjects 20 years of age may vote. When the register...
...following numbers will be given on the program: 1. Chorus from the "Gondoliers" Sullivan Marching Brahms Harvard Glee Club 2. Bagdad Ager Oriental Love Dreams Burnett and Miller Dartmouth Banjo Club 3. Polish Dance arr. by Rice Harvard Mandolin Club 4. Hanover Winter Song Bullard Dartmouth Glee Club 5. Specialty Act (Dartmouth) The Barbary Coast Jazz Band and Joe Murphy '25 6. El Capitan March Sousa Up the Street Morse Harvard Banjo Club Intermission 7. Goin' Home Dvorak The Wreck of the Julie Plante O'Hara Dartmouth Glee Club 8. Specialty Act Harvard Instrumental Club Orchestra 9. Suabian Folk Song...
Since great things were expected of this strange, fanciful drama of olden Bagdad by James Elroy Flecker, the critics foamed. It has been around in printed form for some little time, several editions of it. There is within it an undeniable quality of beauty which it seemed that no stage production could stifle; but if Hassan was not stifled by the present production, at least it was made to gasp audibly...
...story tells of a shoddy confectioner of Bagdad, how he blocked the plot of the King of the Beggars to kill the Calif, rose to a great position in the State, fell because he could not countenance the Calif's cruelty to the captured Beggar King and left Bagdad behind him to make the Golden Journey to Samarkand...
...sensation. Even so, it leaves the mass of present-day American films far, far behind. Known abroad as One Night Between Worlds it argues the fantastic irony of death. Through a young fraulein's dream phantasmagoria, a shadowy Stranger stalks and skulks, luring her amid exotic scenes in Peking, Bagdad, Venice on one of those baffling nightmare quests for a dead lover. Fritz Lang directed; Lil Dagover performed this vehicle for Germanic supernaturalism? now absurdly childish, now weirdly beautiful...