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Died. Theda Bara (real name: Theodosia Goodman), 65. heavy-lidded vamp of the silent screen (The Serpent of the Nile, Camille, The Vampire); of cancer; in Los Angeles. Cincinnati-born Theda Bara scored her first success in 1914 as the irresistible temptress of A Fool There Was ("Kiss me. my fool!"), was soon billed as "The Wickedest Woman in the World." became the subject of some of the most elaborate and preposterous pressagentry in screen history. Her first name, the publicists pointed out. was an anagram of "death.'' her last name "Arab" spelled backwards. She was born, they...
...possible hullabaloo. This week, at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, British Egyptologist Walter Bryan Emery quietly told about finding a similar ship at least 400 years older. It dates from the First Dynasty, 5,000 years ago, when civilization was new in the valley of the Nile...
This was not the situation in First Dynasty Egypt. Before about 3200 B.C., the valley of the Nile had a neolithic culture. It was fairly high-grade, but by no means civilized. Then came a change as sudden as if supernatural culture-bringers had landed in a flying saucer. Without transitional stages, so far as diggers can determine, the Egyptians were building great palaces of brick and stone. They had effective copper tools, including wood saws and the finest needles. They worked with fine artistry in wood, ivory, leather, textiles, metals, precious stones. They had a fully formed written language...
Lost Homeland. Where did this civilization come from? Few Egyptologists believe that the crude inhabitants of the Nile Valley developed it themselves within a few years. Most specialists think it was imported, probably by conquerors, but they do not know from where. One theory suggests Sumeria, whose cultural development may have begun a little ahead of Egypt's. But only a few items in First Dynasty Egypt look as if they came from Sumeria...
...were all in lower case because he was unable to land simultaneously on the shift key). His bruised outpourings are mostly about mehitabel, the life-battered but life-loving cat ("toujours gai, toujours gai") who is pretty sure she is a reincarnation of Cleopatra, the hottest cat on the Nile. The libretto is somewhat bowdlerized (gone is mehitabel's running refrain of "wottheheli wotthehell"), but the original's splendid gutter lyricism is still there: wind come out of the north and pierce to the guts within but some day mehitabel s guts will string a violin