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While her papa, Egypt's King Farouk, attended the exhumation of one of his royal predecessors, Princess Ferial (age four months) faced the world in her first picture. Egypt's adoring fellaheen fondly assured one another that the picture bore a strong resemblance to their late princess, Cleopatra...
After the ceremony a series of celebrations began which even Cleopatra would have found titillating. Three million Egyptians from the hinterland cheered floats of flowers in the streets. Airplanes showered Abdin Palace with rosettes in Egyptian and Iranian colors. Sudan racing camels and Arab stallions crowded the capital's streets. At a reception, each guest received a jewel-encrusted gold box of bonbons (value: $1,000). At night there was a huge banquet at which no liquor flowed (Moslems are dry). The Nile shimmered with reflections of colored fireworks. Later, at another reception for Egyptian royalty and nobles, Fawziya...
...Romeo, Juliet, Antony, Cleopatra, Othello and Brutus were suicides. Suicides also resolved Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck, The Sea Gull...
...cottonmouth venom. The Kansas City Journal-Post related in newsworthy detail how the poison thickened the blood and stopped seepage through the ruptured vessels. The Star merely stated that Donald had been cured by injections of "venom," left it up to readers to guess whether the venom came from Cleopatra's asp or a chemist's test tube...
...plays (with the exception of two shorts: How He Lied to Her Husband, Arms and the Man), Bernard Shaw not only helped write the script for Pygmalion but agreed to let Producer Pascal film all his other plays. Producer Pascal will soon start work on Caesar and Cleopatra...