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Died. Hussein ibn Ali, 76, onetime King of Hedjaz and Grand Sheriff† of Mecca, father of King Feisal of Iraq; father of Emir Abdullah of Transjordania; father of King Ali who succeeded him for a short time when he was forced to abdicate in 1924; in Amman, near Jerusalem Aided by Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence, he revolted against the Turks in 1916 dreamed of establishing a Pan-Arabian Empire which, says Col. Lawrence, the Allied Powers promised him in a treaty in 1915. But Arabia was parcelled out and he became King only of the Hedjaz, was dethroned...
...starting on the breakfast dishes. In the paper that day there was printed a unique notice: Wanted, a soprano to sing Ai'da. . . . Margaret Matzenauer, famed contralto, had been engaged to sing the role of Amneris (Egyptian princess) with an otherwise obscure troupe in Manhattan's gaudy Mecca Temple on May 9. But to get itself a soprano for the slave girl's part the management had decided to resort to an open contest, the winner to get $150 for her performance. . . . Housewife Wallack had never sung Ai'da, had never sung in any opera...
Harvard's Stadium will be the Mecca of track fans today and tomorrow when 133 Crimson athletes, University and Freshman, will seek to repeat last year's victory in the second annual. Greater Boston Intercollegiate track and field meet, competing against M. I. T. with 82 entries; B. C., with 72; Northeastern with 64; B. U. with 53, and Tufts with 45. Trials today are set for 3 o'clock, with the finals in 29 events tomorrow at 2.30 o'clock...
...risky assignments: investigations in disguise among the natives, a journey to Harrar in Somaliland, whence no white man had ever returned; searching for the source of the Nile (his companion Speke got the credit for discovering Victoria Nyanza, but Burton led the expedition). He made the pilgrimage to Mecca in disguise, went to Salt Lake City in the reign of Brigham Young, made an engineering trip to Iceland, wrote many a book on erotic craft & customs of the Orient. Some spoke of him as "ruffian Dick" and "that blackguard Burton," but nobody ever called him a coward or a bore...
After the Harvard presentation from April 6 to April 10, the troupe will go to Northampton, where they will give the show on April 11 at the Academy of Music, and on April 17 will repeat the performance at the Mecca Temple in New York City...