Word: hassan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...specialists have been acquired by the Harvard Dramatic Club to aid in its production of the oriental drama "Hassan", and a broadcasting recital has been announced by the club for Wednesday evening...
...such words as "eyewallah", "istagfarrulah", "marshalla", and "saleikum" puzzled the play-producers and began to loom up as an unsurmountable obstacle, until the bio-linguist Boonisar was discovered. He came to the aid of the perplexed actors, and for the past week has been drilling the cast of "Hassan" it the intricacies of oriental speech...
...feature scenes of "Hassan" and the musical accompaniments to the Hindu and Nautch dances will be broadcast from WBZ, the Statler Hotel radio station between 8.30 and 9 o'clock Wednesday night, according to a recent announcement made by the club officers...
Miss Francesca Braggiotti has been secured to interpret the principal dancing role in the spring show "Hassan", it was announced yesterday by the Harvard Dramatic Club. She will present a dance which she has arranged especially for the play. It is a Hindu and Nautch dance given in an oriental setting, as an interpretation of the play...
...reaching, then, may be the effects of the absence of Radcliffe undergraduates from the announced case of "Hassan" is all too easily imaginable. Brattle Hall, owning no Ethiopian heaven but merely a prim balcony, had been pictured in the happy mind of the Harvard undergraduate as being itself for one exotic night a Mohammedan heaven, with all joys of the East offered for the vicarious happiness of the onlooker. The refreshing lotus was poised a moment at the mouth f the weary student, only to be snatched away even as his lips parted. For in the Cambridge Koran...