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...Tree Day ballet, for example. It was titled "Gift of the Nile" which (the president also explained) is the allegorical name for Egypt. The dancers, who were leg make-up on their faces and held their elbows at right angles, managed to look quite Egyptian; their story involved a princess who had to choose between three suitors. One offered riches, another royal ancestry, and the last love--according to the twenty-five-cent libretto, which kept mum on her final choice. As a matter of fact, the outcome is still in doubt. The suitors could be distinguished only by their...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 5/16/1951 | See Source »

Today's dance pageant, "Gift of the Nile," shows the weeks of work that the 90-odd performers spent on it. The story revolves around a princess, played by Owen Stose '51, who has a difficult time choosing between three sutors offering her riches, royalty, and love--the silly girl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Traditions Run Rampant at Waban; Once Started, They Keep Rolling On | 5/12/1951 | See Source »

Spotlight on Europe. As the centuries whisk by, Sédillot takes only 18 pages to wrench Man out of the amoeba and plunk him down on the banks of the Nile. For the next 20 pages, history flashes from the Indus to the Mediterranean like a restless spotlight, fixing for a moment on King Hammurabi of Babylonia, the empire of Assyria, the fabulous and frivolous Palace of Knossos, and the Phoenician masters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Capsule History | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

From 1929 to 1939 Smith served off and on as an assistant to George A. Reisner '89, director of the Harvard camp. Reisner published three books on the Nile River civilizations, and Smith is carrying on the work. Sometime in 1952, the University Press will publish Smith's latest book on Queen Hetep-Hores, who was the mother of the pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Egypt Returns to College Limelight As Professors Open New Research Center | 3/22/1951 | See Source »

...this blessed day, on which you are rivals in ardor in celebrating the birthday of the King of the Beloved Valley of the Nile, there has been celebrated, in the Grace and under the protection of God, the engagement of His Majesty, King Farouk I, and an exquisite flower of Egyptian society, descendant of an illustrious and glorious family, Mlle. Narriman Sadek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: By the Grace of God | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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