Word: durbars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another kind of show-the kind anyone can understand-was provided by Viceroy & Lady Willingdon. Having pitched their golden thrones and held a durbar near the frontier of Afghanistan (TIME, May 2), they pitched thrones again last week and held another durbar in British Baluchistan, adjoining Persia. To do homage to Their Excellencies hundreds of Baluch nomads rushed out of mud-walled huts, sprang to horse and to camel and greeted the Vice-regal procession as Benito Mussolini or oldtime Amerindians would have done- with right arm outstretched. On the high-road to Kalat, capital of the native states...
...motor as it purred through the streets of Quetta, British Baluchistan's capital. Bearded merchants strewed Oriental rugs, hastily retrieving them once they had been run over by the Viceregal tires. Under a great canopy on the Quetta race course the thrones had been pitched, and there the durbar began...
...durbar was to be in Victoria Memorial Hall. There on a dais the golden Viceregal Throne had been set up. Crowded close to each other on one side of the hall stood 500 frontier Khans, all in their richest gold sashes and blue turbans, all bright-eyed with mass expectancy. On the other side, starchy and aloof, stood 200 British officers and civil servants, many of them battle-scarred oldsters. Present also as Their Excellencies entered and the durbar solemnly began were the 40 who were about to become the Legislative Council...
...Meshbesher (Mary Boland) who declares that she has so many diamonds "you can see me from Yonkers." When Inquisitor Samuel Seabury (see p. 13) threatens the policemen with an investigation, they decide to conceal their opulence by financing a revue, The Rhinestones of 1932. High spot of this durbar, which must have cost Producer Sam H. Harris himself a good deal of money, is a lavish rhinestone Venetian scene, complete with half-a-dozen flights of rhinestone pigeons...
Husbands in name, Hyderabad's two princes were hustled back to their hotel after the ceremony. They will not see their wives again until a nuptial reunion and Grand Durbar is staged in Hyderabad by their potent Papa...