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Polo. Alfonso XIII, 40, probably the only living sovereign young enough to ride a pirouetting polo pony, played back, one afternoon, for the polo team of the 65th Lancers against the 7th Hussars. With a potent swipe of the royal mallet he split a polo ball both halves of which rolled over the goal line. By that goal the Lancers...
...This opening sura, the equivalent of the Christian Lord's Prayer, goes: In the name of God, the compassionate compassioner. Praise be to God, the Lord of the Worlds, the compassionate compassioner, the sovereign of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship and of Thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right way; in the way of those to whom Thou hast been gracious, on whom there is no wrath, and who go not astray. The sixth verse coincides word for word with the 11th line of the 27th Psalm. The religious student notes further...
...show is not this season called the Follies. For reasons of litigation and liabilities the Follies, which are not owned completely by Mr. Ziegfeld, may never reappear. For this cruel fact there might be a few moments of national mourning. The Follies started in 1907 and became indisputably the sovereign of all the annual revues. Of late years they have had more competition and were occasionally surpassed by others. Yet the name Ziegfeld Follies was as sure a trademark of excellent entertainment as one could find in the show business. One trusts that from the shadows of dispute...
...death and taxes the citizen of Manhattan has come to regard George White's Scandals as a fixed addition. For eight summers now Mr. White has flung his frivolity upon the town. Most of these eight have rippled with beauty and amusement. This latest sample is the sovereign of the series. It is regarded by many as one of the best revues ever unveiled...
Pompous street criers strode last week through the narrow, vile and crowded thoroughfares of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. What the criers intoned in majestic Persian, their attendants translated freely into vulgar Pushtoo. Soon the 100,000 citizens of Kabul rejoiced that there Amir* ("Sovereign Lord") Amanullah Khan had conferred upon himself by proclamation the title "King...