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...Darius of Persia first came into the valley of Kabul in the 6th Century B.C. After him came Alexander of Macedonia, Antiochus III of Syria, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane and Baber. Centuries later came the British; then the Russians; finally the Germans and Japanese. Last week, clutching his brief case in a car that pitched like a camel over the boulder-strewn Khyber Pass, came the American. He was balding, professorial Cornelius van Henert Engert, U.S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan...
...lived in Orchard-Meadow Hall with A. Maurois, speaking passable French and concentrating on durable French culture. Another, forming a Casa Pan-Americana, bandied Spanish and Portuguese with famed Latin-American Scholar Samuef Guy Inman, even staged fiestas for visiting Latin-American sailors. For music, there was French Composer Darius Milhaud and the Budapest String Quartet, with whom some quartet-struck students carried on a mild flirtation. There were also Architect Richard Neutra, ex-German Political Scientist Hans Simons, many another native and foreign celebrity. But the most popular and interesting character was Aurelia Reinhardt herself...
...Londoners rehearsed three weeks for their programs, which were chosen by Widow Coolidge, included two quartets dedicated to her (by Frenchman Darius Milhaud, Italian Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, both expatriates in California). The four musicians said they felt "as though we never had been separated." To their first audience they sounded that...
...fanatic nationalist, in 1935 he changed Persia's name to Iran, which had been its name as a nation even before the great days of Cyrus and Darius and Xerxes. Persia ("Pars") was merely one of Iran's provinces. In the same spirit, he chose to add Pahlavi to his name. It means "the Parthian." In classic times, the Parthians were famed mounted bowmen...
Manhattan's worldlywise, bee-busy Museum of Modern Art has a plushy, subterranean auditorium where, between series of movie classics, its customers have heard Mexican music, Brazilian music, movie music, Parisian music (by Darius Milhaud). Last week Museumgoers heard something even more tittupy: the first of six "Coffee Concerts" whose artists will range from an angel-winged, guitar-playing Negro bishop to a squeeze of Spanish bagpipers...