Word: cadi
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...typical of this brand of melodrama, The Æthiop’s plot is more convoluted than complex. The play is set in timeless Baghdad, complete with such characters as a vizier named Giafar, Cephania, Queen of the East, a cadi, an emir, a slave, and an Arab. But except for the exotic names and a few camel references, this is a play of troubled lovers, conspiracy and happy endings that could have been set anywhere...
...Fields. Though they have since moved into major concert halls, Gamson, Oxenburg and Co. still produce works that are rarely if ever done by other companies in the U.S. or abroad-Gluck's Le Cadi Dupe, Purcell's Witch of Endor, Cherubini's Medea, Handel's Julius Caesar. Despite packed houses, the company's current deficit runs to about $35,000 a season-which in the opera business really adds up to a howling financial success. Contributions ("We never know where we're going to get the money") cover the losses...
Babes in Bagdad (Danziger Bros.; United Artists), a film with a harem setting, is a case of boy meets girls. The ladies of the cadi of Bagdad's harem want to prove that women are the equals of men-and that each is thus entitled to a gentleman of her own. Led by Harem Beauties Paulette Goddard and Gypsy Rose Lee and aided by the caliph's dashing godson (Richard Ney), who believes in limiting his affections to "one woman for all time," they strike a blow for Eastern feminism...
...sped the cyclist, passed the carriage, threw the contents of his bottle (acid) at the Cadi who was badly burned about the neck, chest, left hand, suffered from shock...
...vehicular biped escaped but the Cadi gave the police a detailed description of him, and his arrest was considered merely a matter of time...