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...Hassan" is full of the atmosphere of "The Arabian Nights." The scene is laid in ancient Bagdad, in the days of Haroun al Raschid, and there are pictures of disguise and adventure, cruel fate and torture. "The New Statesman" refers to "Hassan" as a "magnificent acting play. It is a work of unalloyed emotional sincerity and a great luxurious warmth of imagination. If it becomes advantageous again to parade abroad the fruits of English culture, our patriot propagandists, looking round for modern poetic tragedy of English birth with which to impress neutrals, will not be forced to fall back...
Nightclub. Seventy boys and 70 girls of the Medill High School, Chicago, attended a dinner dance at the Club Bagdad, were caught in a raid by prohibition agents, denied they had been drinking. Agents searched for evidence in vain...
This was immediately founded, with Professor Norton as President, and has ever since remained one of the important organizations for the prosecution of research in archaeology and the fine arts. Largely through the Institute the schools for American students in Athens, Rome, Jerusalem, Bagdad, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, were founded. The Journal of the Institute is one of the leading archaeological periodicals, and it has been active in the organization of expeditions, either alone or in collaboration with one of the foreign schools...
...Flyer Schlee was given a "good luck bead," used by Turkish cabbies to decorate their horses, and he blamed the bead for the delay in Turkey. He said it worked against his rabbit's foot. The Pride of Detroit, un-superstitious machine, rose from Constantinople, flew to Bagdad, 1,075 miles, making up time...
Seventh Day. Harassed on the one hand by harsh fatigue, on the other by the passing of precious time, Schlee & Brock swung the Pride of Detroit into the air from Bagdad and flew to Bender Abbas, Persia...