Word: circassians
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...Frenchmen were angry at Frenchmen-for helping the Nazis. Colonel Philibert Collet, tiny, quiet, Arab-speaking onetime Governor of Lebanon, whose wife is English and whose spirit is French but tough, last week went over to the British and Free French cause, leading with him some of his wiry Circassian cavalrymen...
...Biscay, the convict awaits the sailing of the plodding 3,800-ton "hellship" La Martinière, formerly a German freighter, now outfitted with steel-girded cells and mutiny-suppressing hot-steam hose. Into her hold go Foreign Legion deserters, Algerian Spahis convicted of rape, French Indo-Chinese murderers, Circassian thieves, arch-crooks from Montmartre. The ship arrives in 50 or 60 days at St. Laurent, on the Maroni River dividing Surinam* and French Guiana, where after another brief internment, most convicts are assigned to a prison at Cayenne or Kourou or to any one of numerous jungle camps along...
...posed unveiled! The moment she was married she should have heavily veiled herself, and Court officials desperately maintained that she did, but Chicago Tribune's, Alex Small was among those who saw otherwise, cabled: "Farida wore no veil at all, revealing that she is of the pure Circassian type, more beautiful than has been represented in any of her pictures. Her short, slim, childish figure was clothed in a billowing white satin wedding gown." Worth of Paris charged the Egyptians $3,000 for this dress. Other eyes must have seen her too, for, still breaking tradition, she rode...
...Marche "Lorraine" Ganne *Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai *Minuet (for strings) Boccherini *"Carmen" Fantasia Bizet *"La Source," Ballet Suite Delibes Scarf Dance--Love Scene--Variation Circassian Dance *Mediation from "Thias" Massenet Solo Violin: Julius Theodorowicz *Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner *Victor Herbert Favorites Arranged by Sanford *Prelude in C-sharp minor Rachmaninoff *Cheyenne Indian War Dance Skilton...
...Entrance of the Gladiators"Fucik *Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendolssohu *Prelude in C-sharp minor Rachmaninoff *Fantasia. "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagnt *Ballet Suite. "La Source" Delibes Scarf Dance--Love Scene Variation--Circassian Dance *Meditation from "Thais" Massenet Violin solo: Julius Theodorowicz *Prelude to "The Mastersingers of Nuremburg" Wagner *"Roberta," Selection Kern *"Espana' 'Waltzes Waldteufel *"Procession of the Sardar" Ippolitov-Ivanov Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square