Word: luxor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This cable from Luxor, Egypt the directors of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society received last week with great relief. Last month they had engaged Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler to succeed Arturo Toscanini as the orchestra's general music director (TIME. March 9). Announcement of the Furtwängler appointment raised a storm of protest. Angry groups organized to boycott next season's concerts.' World-famed musicians served notice they would not solo with the Philharmonic if its leader was to be a man who had accepted and profited by the German Nazi regime...
...once had to walk the 18 miles from Bab to Aleppo in pitch darkness because in his eagerness to be off he had not properly strapped on his spare gasoline supply. After John Wilson got Chicago's Ph. D. in Egyptology, Breasted sent him on an expedition to Luxor as epigrapher. For five years he stayed in Egypt. When the heat grew so intense that even the flies died, he fled to Berlin and Munich for more study, went back to Chicago to become assistant professor of Egyptology, associate professor, scientific secretary of the Institute. Last week the Institute...
Charlie Chan in Egypt (Fox) exhibits the hero of Hollywood's most durable saga investigating a murder case in Luxor where an archeologist has been shot, battered and mummified. When Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) arrives on the scene, he promptly outlines his methods with a proverb: "Insignificant molehill sometimes more worthy of notice than conspicuous mountain." Aided by a dusky retainer and the fiance of the deceased archeologist's lovely daughter (Pat Paterson), he sets about selecting the guilty party from a group of suspects that include an Egyptian butler, a bad-tempered doctor, a druggist, an amiable...
...crop of curse stories was especially thick last month when Arthur Weigall, distinguished Egyptologist who had visited Luxor, died of an undisclosed cause (TIME, Jan. 15). Searching the rosters of expeditionists, tomb-visitors and their near & distant kin, Hearstpapers found that no less than 20 persons had shared the ancient penalty. Dr. Louis Dublin, master statistician of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., examined the list of the dead, found that in 1923 their average expectancy of life was 20 years. Out of him was wormed the admission: "There is something uncanny about...
...whom the curse might be expected to rest heavily is healthy Herbert Eustis Winlock, the Metropolitan Museum's present Curator of Egyptology, who was very much in the thick of things at Luxor. Not for ten years did skeptical Mr. Winlock, 50 this week, bother to comment on the curse legend. In Manhattan last week, concerned about his friend and predecessor, he called the Boston hospital daily to learn Dr. Lythgoe's condition. When he found the hospital telephones so jammed by calls from curse-believers that he could hardly get his own calls through, Mr. Winlock...