Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outburst with which the New York reviewers received my opera In the Pasha's Garden was a symptom of a concerted attack and generally understood as such. The adverse comments leveled at the music were false and contradictory to the most obvious facts, as musical New York was perfectly aware...
TIME, Nov. 25 said: "In the worst U. S. opera ever produced at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House there appeared last winter a soprano so shapely, so vividly blonde that she seemed more like a transient from Hollywood than a potential singer of real grand opera. In the Pasha's Garden was such a flaccid, sterile piece, offered such feeble opportunities that critics would only say that Helen Jepson was unusually pretty...
Manager Johnson's prospectus included no new U. S. opera. But the memory of Merry Mount and In the Pasha's Garden was still too painful to breed many regrets. In no instance did the list of 36 operas extend beyond the conventional repertoire, with Verdi, Wagner and Puccini predominating changes have been in the personnel. The orchestra has been reorganized, with the result that many of the less competent players are absent. In the chorus there are new youthful faces. The stodgy old ballet has been replaced by the new U. S. organization founded two years...
...late Zaghlul Pasha founded the Wafd Party which today wins most Egyptian elections by about 97%. The Wafd does not control Egypt for the reason that the country's Premier and its King are puppets imposed and maintained by the British Government which officially maintains that the country is also "The Free and Independent Kingdom of Egypt." For Zaghlul's widow last week all this was too much. In French she cried: "I am boycotting everything British, even the language. We Egyptian women are throwing our moral force and encouragement- and we are ready to give also...
...oblique answer to such Egyptian talk, Great Britain last week invited some Egyptian princes and Premier Nessim Pasha aboard the British cruisers Berwick and Ajax to watch demonstrations of Might off the harbor of Alexandria by 60 British war boats, 60 British warplanes...