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...last election by a majority of 19 to 1 over all opponents combined (TIME, Jan. 13, 1930), it became clear that if King Fuad was to remain on his throne and remain a British puppet the next election would have to be a fraud. Last week Premier Ismail Sidky Pasha, creature of the King, was busy perpetrating this fraud...
...like Marion Talley. Besides, she has enough to do to learn her part in ten days." In this same favorite opera, Soprano Anna Turkel of Woonsocket, R. I. touched fame by a triumph in the Cairo opera house witnessed by U. S. Minister William M. Jardine, Prime Minister Ismail Sidky Pasha and many another important Egyptian (TIME, Feb. 23). Soprano Turkel started with at least one advantage over Housewife Wallack. She used to sell candy and cigarets in the Metropolitan Opera's refreshment room, so had the opportunity to hear great singing, to meet great singers who started...
...audience which gathered at the Royal Opera House in Cairo one night last week had the feeling that nothing which happened on the stage would be any more exciting than the sight of Prime Minister Ismail Sidky Pasha sitting in his box glowering at Former Prime Minister Mustafa Nahas Pasha, his bitterest political enemy, in a box just opposite. The opera was AÏda, a particularly old story for Cairo. Years ago, Khedive Ismail Pasha, swollen over the success of the new Suez Canal, had commissioned Verdi to write it for the opening of that same opera house...
...Leader Nahas Pasha, whom King Fuad recently forced to resign as Prime Minister, although he commanded 95% of the seats in Egypt's Parliament. The issue was clearly that of Democracy v. Autocracy, for King Fuad, a British puppet, was attempting to rule last week with a "Palace Premier," Ismail Sidky Pasha, who is not himself a member of Parliament and controls but three Parliamentary votes...
Four days later King Fuad, after consulting his British advisers, appointed one Ismail Sidky Pasha of the minute Ittihadist (pro-Palace) party to be Prime Minister. Everyone knew that this cabinet would fall the moment Sidky Pasha showed his nose in Parliament, but he did noi show...