Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest producer of second-rate opera in the U.S. is Alfredo Salmaggi. He moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan last week, set up his scenery and props in 55th Street's Turko-Egyptian Mecca Theater, led off with a roof-raising performance of Traviata. Competition from the Metropolitan Opera House bothered Impresario Salmaggi not a whit. "My singers," he averred with a lordly shake of his shoulder-length hair, "are mucha better than the Metropolitan...
Most exotic group of convicted objectors (7%) were Negro "Moslems," who discard their "slave names" when they embrace their new religion and presently get new ones (like John Jones Bey) from Mecca. Their reason for refusal to serve was simple: In Mecca, war has not been declared...
...workers at naval air bases, U.S. Gypsum, Phelps Dodge's huge new Morenci mine, Climax Molybdenum, etc. She has even operated entire industrial towns (movies, pool halls, filling stations, etc.), last year ran two camps in the Bahamas for Paramount, is now setting up a new camp at Mecca, on the Salton Sea, for the same company's new film, So Proudly We Hail. One of her many headaches: when Anderson bakers are sent from California's Imperial Valley up to Climax, they have to change their habits all around because high altitudes affect the baking...
...farm Crosby tires of agrarian chores and teams up with demure Marjorie Reynolds to make the farm a Mecca for droves of metropolitan entertainment seekers. Astaire soon catches the scent and plays the Lothario again but with less success this time, though the film's generally light mood makes it rather unimportant...
Thirteen centuries ago the Prophet Mohammed called upon his followers to make a haj (pilgrimage) to his native Mecca at least once in their lifetimes in order to gain favor in the eyes of Allah. For 13 centuries, pious Moslems have done so, and thereafter been honored as haji. From India some 11,000 pilgrims annually made the trip. But last week India's Moslems heard from Delhi that sea transport for the haj (only feasible route from India) was out for the duration. Reason: enemy subs in the Indian Ocean...