Word: marouf
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...move in for himself-the mixture of soldiers, nationalists, socialists and others who joined in ousting Shishekly picked as new Premier stout, bespectacled Sabri el Assali, a right-wing Damascus lawyer. Around him was assembled a Cabinet notable mostly for its lack of political notables. One exception: Defense Minister Marouf Dawalibi, who was Premier when Shishekly assumed power two years...
...evening, a 47-year-old, silken-mouthed Syrian politician named Marouf Dawalibi announced that he had formed a cabinet, Syria's first in three weeks. Dawalibi, a bearded law professor with a French wife, is a man of accumulated hates. He is anti-British, anti-Israeli, anti-American. He once said that "the Arabs would prefer a thousandfold to become a Soviet republic rather than a prey to world Jewry...
When Composer Henri Rabaud made an opera out of the 959th of the 1,001 Arabian Nights, he clothed it in music gay, elaborate and Oriental. The fact that parts of it recall Rimsky-Korsakov never seemed to matter. A good-natured plot and attractive sets helped make Marouf popular at the Paris Opera-Comique. The opera had eleven performances at the New York Metropolitan between 1917 and 1920. Though Composer Rabaud meant his lead to be a tenor, Baritone Giuseppe de Luca always sang the role at the Metropolitan. Last week the spring company resurrected Marouf...
Mario Chamlee (Archer Ragland Cholmondeley) has given almost 100 impersonations of Marouf, the cobbler who runs away from his nagging wife, pretends to be a rich merchant, makes a monkey of the Sultan of Khaitan and marries the Sultan's daughter. Chamlee first took the part nine years ago at Ravinia Park (Chicago), later in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Lille and Brussels. When he arrived to sing his first Marouf in Paris, Composer Rabaud kept him up till 3 a.m. going over the score, called him a "delicious interpreter...
...last week's Marouf Tenor Chamlee showed the agreeable voice and the discreet musicianship people expect of him. Norman Cordon was comical as the suspicious, crack-voiced vizier. Pretty Nancy McCord, who used to sing in Broadway shows, made her Metropolitan debut as Princess Saamcheddine. She hit the proper notes, but acted woodenly and could not hide the fact that she has a pale, uninteresting voice. Listeners felt that the Metropolitan's Marouf was well worth repeating, but could not come up to last season's smash hit in English, The Bartered Bride...