Word: orientalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Frances Hart Breasted, 61, wife and companion on most expeditions of University of Chicago's Orientalist James Henry Breasted; of bacterial endocarditis; in Chicago...
James Henry Breasted, famed Orientalist of the University of Chicago, announced he was going back to work on King Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb in March. Of the Sunday-supplement "Curse of the Pharaohs," which is supposed to kill off Egyptian tomb-snoopers and which was revived last fortnight by the death of famed British Egyptologist Arthur E. P. B. Weigall (TIME, Jan. 15), Professor Breasted chortled: "All tommyrot! I defy that curse. And if anyone was exposed to it I was. For two weeks I slept in the tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen and took my meals...
Married. Charles Breasted, 33, executive secretary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, son of famed Orientalist James Henry Breasted, director of the Institute; and Violet E. Timms. 24, of Harrow, Middlesex, England; in Manhattan...
...loafer (Joshua Logan), whose policies are op posed by Buck Heyward (Harold Tasker), the villain who wishes to awaken Prince ton from its beer-drinking lethargy. Vil lain Heyward also covets the affections of Miss Graham (Harry Dunham), daughter of Professor Graham (James Henry Breasted Jr., son of famed Orientalist Breasted of the University of Chicago). He is thwarted by handsome Bruce Pelham (James Stewart). The plot then skips 100 years by the simple method of having Mr. Logan fall off a building and lapse into a coma. Best feature of the futuristic sequences is a ballet mecanique...