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...York to raise hell." Nobody imagined, however, that Shakespeare was to be included in the party. But last week, after long preparation and a road tour, Tallulah swept into Manhattan's Mansfield Theatre in the traditional gilded brassiere and diaphanous pantalettes of the serpent of the Nile. After watching veteran Conway Tearle play Antony like a bemused warhorse, with a Cleopatra who was more like a flouncing Cleopatsy, Broadway was not surprised when the play closed after five performances...
...appointed laboratories in which Mr. Titterington and his staff analyze much of the food used on the royal table. On a visit to the laboratory in the Abdin Palace, Cairo, I found Mr. Titterington was analyzing a keg of butter, part of a large shipment recently shipped down the Nile to Cairo...
...days of Pharaoh have made Ethiopia a 100% impassable sea of mud. A second road 50 mi. long was to link Debarech in the country's deep interior and Gondar, an important town 25 mi. north of vital Lake Tana, which empties its waters into the Blue Nile, feeds British irrigation works in the Sudan...
...hajj over the desert sands to Mecca. Last week, fat, wealthy Mussulmen loath to subject themselves to such a hot, dusty, brigand-infested journey had for the first time a better means of travel. From Cairo, Misr Airwork of Egypt inaugurated a special service for pilgrims, flying up the Nile to Aswan, thence across the Red Sea to Jidda and on into the interior to isolated Mecca. Fare...
...prehistoric times, human beings from the once verdant Sahara desert settled in the valley of the Nile and were forced by the difficulties of making a living to use their brains. Here and in the lands to the east arose the earliest civilizations. To study "the most remarkable process known to us in the universe: the rise of man from savagery to civilization," Professor James H. Breasted founded The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, and sent out fourteen expeditions to Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, and Persia. "The Human Adventure" was produced under the supervision of Professor Breasted...