Word: caliphate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perry will play the part of Haroun-al-Raschid, the Caliph. Perry is a former president of the Dramatic Club, and has played in nearly every production for the past four years...
...with great success. The scene is laid in the Bagdad of the fifteenth century. Adventure, intrigue, and romance are woven into a story which combines rare wit and humor with high emotional power. In a setting of color and life is placed Haroun at Raschid, the famous Caliph, and Hassan, a poor confectioner...
...plot centers about a conspiracy to dethrone the caliph of the city, and place in his stead a treacherous, vizier who works, in conspiracy with a court dancer, to seize the ruler's daughter, who, with the aid of a self-declared magician, exposes the treachery by preying upon the superstition of the caliph...
...acts are laid in the court room of the caliph and in the town square, respectively, and the scenery has been designed by John Moss; Moss is also designing the costuming. Constructivism, allowing for different stage levels, will be used for the first time in a Triangle production...
...calligrapher without peer. The letters he could form with his sharp-pointed stylus were illegible without glasses. He would, on this grain of white rice, write al-fatiha (the Opening), the first sura (chapter) of the Koran.* Too he would write the great speech of Abu Bekr, the first caliph. The words he would write would make 150. This he would do, and did, for the glory of God and the wonder of men. Last week in Cairo, one Nureddon Bey Mustafa, looked long at the grain of white rice with its Koranic minutiae, found it a perfect symbol...