Word: durbars
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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...
Pièce de resistance of the White durbar is Crooner Rudy Vallée. He submits good-naturedly to some mild joshing, does not seem to mind when Willie Howard asks him if he is related to the Lehigh Valleys, sings several numbers with & without a megaphone...
Earl Carroll's Vanities are rococo. Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies are smart. And yet, in spite of his overpowering, unwholesome gaudiness. Earl Carroll is probably a better showman than Florenz Ziegfeld. When he puts on his annual durbar there is a spontaneity to its promotion which Producer Ziegfeld strives painfully to attain. One night last week a crowd choked Manhattan's Seventh Avenue to witness the most recent, most important mile stone in Producer Carroll's theatrical career. He was presenting the ninth annual Vanities in the newest, largest U. S. playhouse...
They gave him a son (TIME, March 23). Sir Hari, who had bet rich friends that they would, collected big winnings. Last week despatches told how he has spent $300,000 on a "Nazar Durbar" to celebrate the babe's birth. In addition to paying for prayer fests and food fests...
Nina Rosa was nurtured through a debut in Chicago and a tryout at the St. Louis Municipal Opera. Manhattan audiences, watching the opening curtain, were reminded of that Hispanic musical durbar of a past season called Rio Rita. There were a number of handsome U. S. citizens transplanted to a South American scene. They apparently had been having difficulty in locating a gold mine in the Andes which had once been worked to a profit by the Incas. The plot grows more Incandescent when it develops that Jack Haines (Guy Robertson) has fallen in love with a lady (Ethelind Terry...