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...mese (mead) or bousa (beer). A yard- wide French-operated railway climbs from French Jibuti on the Gulf of Aden 500 miles inland to Addis Ababa, the capital of Abyssinia. From this glorified dung hill, seat of an Imperial House which claims descent from the biblical Queen of Sheba, a formal protest reached the Secretariat of the League of Nations last week. Prince Regent Taffari of Abyssinia declared in the name of the retired Empress Zauditu that he has seldom met with foreigners who do not desire to possess themselves of Abyssinia and to destroy the independence of the Ethiopian...
...Pops concert program for tonight, Tufts night, will be as follows: Cortege from "The Queen of Sheba" Gounod Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolar Fantasia, "Fedora" Giordano Tufts Songs Overture "Euterpe" Chadwick Symphonic Poem, "Finlandia" Sibelius Carnival in Paris Svendsen Tufts Songs Ride of the Valkyries Wagner Waltz "Estudiantina" Waldteufel Wedding March Mendelssohn
...Yale Club in Manhattan. The secret of writing biographical history, he declares is a knowledge of the card-index system of any substantial public library. His other books are: Laughing House, The Big Year, Oh Susanna, Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a Bibliography, The Queen of Sheba, The Seven Hills, The Fabulous Forties...
Then came the night in Sever when you first heard him read. They had told you that it was going to be good. But, like Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, nobody had given you the least idea of how good it was going to be. There were the usual alarums and excursions about the windows--which ones should be up and which down, and, if up, how far up, and, if down, how far down; and the hallowed stage-properties of reading-lamp, watch and glass of water, the last two of which did duly in the grave-diggers...
...This Is Marriage is one of the most curious hybrids that the pictures have produced. Right in the middle of a prosaic history of a young wife who spent too much money, is introduced an elaborate Biblical adventure in luxurious color film. David and Bath-Sheba, battles and beards, dancing girls and the annoyance of the Lord thereat are profusely painted in. They illustrate the villain's attempt to justify to the wife her proposed seduction by himself. Very properly the bewildered girl burst into tears and went downstairs to her husband. The picture proves that travel talks...