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...sooner had the Theater Atlanta Repertory Company started its run of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra than its Queen of the Nile, Actress Kathryn Loder, took a spill onstage and broke her hand. Her doctors ordered her out of the show, and T.A. Director Jay Broad feared he might have to close the run in his new $1,000,000 house. Then he learned that Negro Actress Diana Sands, 32, was playing Lady Macbeth at nearby Spelman College. Would she fill in? Delighted, said Diana. After four days of rehearsals, she opened as Cleopatra, playing to a near-capacity...
Hilton International, since 1964 a separate corporate entity from the domestic chain, operates 34 hotels, plus two Nile-plying cruise ships. The company has reported revenue increases of almost 200% over the past five years, estimates that 1966 income will rise to $122 million. Its hotels are located along a necklace of cities that would start even a stay-at-home packing. Among them: Acapulco, Paris, Athens, Bangkok and Hong Kong, all on present or pending TWA routes...
KHARTOUM. Laurence Olivier as the malevolent Madhi and Charlton Heston as the mystic General "Chinese" Gordon pit their gods against each other in an epic struggle for control of the Nile...
Khartoum looks something like the fall of the Alamo as told by Lawrence of Arabia. Three months in the filming in the desert along the Nile, this Cinerama spectacle enlisted the services of 2,500 Egyptian army troops for some of the noisiest slaughter scenes ever filmed. It took 70,000 gallons of water a day just to keep the cast from evaporating, and United Artists sent enough medical equipment out on location to serve a division in Viet Nam. Nonetheless Khartoum is not just another exercise in wide-screen warfare: emphasizing subtlety rather than savagery, it convincingly retells...
...bought her first dress, later switched from religious to romantic songs, and instantly became a Pan-Arabic institution. King Farouk awarded her Egypt's highest civilian decoration, and she reciprocated by singing political songs, first, Farouk, May You Live Forever and later, for Nasser, Gamal and the Nile Are Creators of the Dam. When, in 1953, a black-bordered box in Egyptian newspapers reported that a hyperthyroid condition endangered her voice, no doctor in the Middle East dared to treat her for fear of damaging "Allah's treasure." At the invitation of the U.S. Government, she was treated...