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Egypt. At Gizeh, near the great pyramids of Chephren and of Cheops, Professor Selim Hassan of Cairo gouged into a bank of mud and sand left by the encroaching Nile, came upon the limestone tomb of a princess whom he took to be the daughter of Chephren. This Pharaoh was of the Fourth Dynasty, which experts variously locate between 3,100 and 2,800 B. c. The sarcophagus was completely sealed with mortar, evidence that thieves had never broken...
...disintegrated, but the head was well preserved. With the skeleton were bracelets, anklets, two necklaces of gold and a copper girdle, a gold headdress with streamers of copper and gold. Atop the sarcophagus was an ala baster headrest, shaped like a crescent moon on a pedestal (see cut). Professor Hassan found four sculptured gold fingers, searched for six more gold fingers and ten gold toes. Director John A. Wilson of Chicago's rich Oriental Institute called Chephren's daughter, "one of the best finds in recent years...
...circus and racetrack, left the happiest childhood impression on Laura, had much to do with her delighted discovery of circus subjects soon after the War. She traveled with circuses, became the firm friend of England's late great clown, Whimsical Walker, and a dappled grey circus horse named Hassan, both of whom she repeatedly painted. Of the circus she says: "I love the freedom of it all. . . . The flapping of canvas is like the sound of gunshot- there's nothing in the world to compare with it all. . . . The perfection of the control of the human body...
...sense of rhythm, a clear conception of everything he plays. Except for a youthful Mozart symphony Sir Thomas presented an all-British program. An overture by the redoubtable Dame Ethel Smyth was commonplace noise. Delius was represented by a sensitive, finely spun dance from Koanga, a delicate serenade from Hassan. Vaughan Williams' London Symphony has seldom been made so eloquent, with its suggestion of the ever-rolling Thames, the gay street scenes leading up to a grim hunger march, the solemn, chimes of Big Ben. After Elgar's rollicking Cockaigne overture there were cheers for Sir Thomas...
...example of old-style cinemelodrama, Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back is an entertaining Hollywood elaboration, replete with London fogs, funny policemen, disgruntled Scotland Yard inspectors. Good shot: Hassan and Singh rearing their ugly heads behind the sofa on which Lola Fields has fallen into an unwary doze...