Word: desert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rough Riff Robin Hood is the protagonist in "The Desert Song", a tuneful expose of Mohammedan love-technique now on view at the Majestic Theatre. Yelept "The Red Shadow" (rhymes with "go, snow, or know") this brigand leads his turbaned tenors to several well-earned choral triumphs over Post 13 of the Moroccan Legion...
...musical play, the action of "The Desert Song" is intricate. Pierre Birabeau, played by Robert Halliday, is known in North African social circles as the half-wit son of Governor-General Birabeau. But this is only an assumed role; among the Riffs, Pierre is really none other than "The Red Shadow", a renegade white man who leads the natives on nocturnal forays. His dual activities are not suspected and they give him a lot of good harmless fun until love arrives in the attractive form of Miss Ethel Louise Wright as Margot Bonvalet, a visiting Parisienne...
Eddie Buzzell, as a newspaper correspondent who is captured by "a thousand, no, more than that--ten hundred Riffs," furnishes the amusement. His prayer to Allah, beginning "you know me, Al," is a gem. This comic interpolation, combined with Sigmund Romber's music, suffices to make "The Desert Song" entertainment of the first rank...
...used as an example of the way in which an intelligent people have made the most of an apparently unfavor- able environment, utilizing what scant materials are at hand to make their lives fairly comfortable in a most inhospitable region; the Bedawins of Arabia to show how a desert environment has led them to adopt a pastoral, nomadic form of existence and has shaped many of their beliefs and customs; and the Polynesians and the Melanesians, to show how their environment has stimulated them in the art of navigation. The policy of this series will be not to insist...
...busy for those luxuries in his tall Ritz Tower. But even in his spacious suite the desks, where work is done, are made of metal. No New Year's work was done on them; Mr. Brisbane far from Manhattan as he often is, wrote paragraphs from a desert in California...