Word: harem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan. Use a larger board, two additional pieces, four players. Mme. Halide Edib, Oriental feminist, sergeant in the Turkish army, once sentenced to death by a Sultan, arrived on the Aquitania, to address the Williamstown (Mass.) Institute of Politics. No Sultan-10ver, Mme. Halide divulged secrets of the Turkish harems, permitted herself a social slur: "The better class of Turks never practiced polygamy and men who had harems were socially in disfavor, despite the fact that the Sultans always had one. Public opinion in Turkey is against the harem. Polygamy is now bootleg." Dr. Sven V. Knudsen herded...
...American Opera Comany will present Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio", a comedy with a romantic background interspersing speech with song, at the Hollis Street Theatre this evening. Two lovers and the Sultan are the romantic personages, while the keeper of the harem, fat and drunken, and a sportive maid provide the humorous element...
...Abduction from the Seraglio" will be the performance of the American Opera Company at the Hollis Street Theatre this evening. It is a comdy with a romantic background interspersing speech with song, in which two lovers and the Sultan are the romantic personages, while the keeper of the harem, fat and drunken, and a sportive maid provide the humorous element...
Among the most novel of these operas is Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio", a comedy with a romantic background interspersing speech with song. Two lovers and the Sultan are the Romantic personages, while the keeper of the harem, fat and drunken, and a sportive maid provide the humorous element. It has seldom been performed in this country. The first recorded performance was at Brooklyn in 1860, in Italian, under the title "Belmonte and Constanze". Two years later there was a performance in German at the German Opera House in New York.SELECTED TO SING ROLE OF LADY HARRIETT IN "MARTHA...
Pierre becomes involved when he engineers an abduction--object matrimony--this of Mam'selle Bonvalet. Her fiance and the General, both Legionnaires, turn out in pursuit. It is not until after a hectic harem scene and a few Sahara serenades that "The Shadow" ("Shad", for short) emerges the winner on points: the Parisenne on one arm and a reconciled father on the other...