Word: suez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Count Charles de Lesseps, 82, son of Viscount Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal (opened in 1869), in Paris...
...their new route, the first regular service of its kind in existence, the seven circumnavigators will sail from San Francisco via Japan, China, the Philippines, Java, Straits Settlements, Singapore, India, Suez, Egypt, Mediterranean ports, New York, the Panama Canal to San Francisco again. They will fly the American flag, and the Dollar Line guarantees their operation for at least five years. The sale price will not be announced until the contracts are sealed and delivered...
...spite of almost daily political disturbances, the opera season closed with its usual brilliance. Opera in Egypt is state organized and state subsidized. The Royal Opera House was built by Khedive Ismail as part of the celebrations in connection with the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. Verdi wrote an opera for its opening-Aida, and ever since Aida has opened the Cairo season. Since the war the visiting companies have been chiefly Italian. It is from the business community that the greater part of the opera audiences are drawn. Egyptians are generally indifferent. Italians, Greeks, Syrians, but above...
Harold West as Viscount Deeford the young nobleman, who, because of his complete artlessness, is selected by Disraeli to make the purchase of the controlling shares in the Suez Canal, played with appreciation and effectiveness, as did Miss Standing as Lady Reversey, his fiancee...
...Ellis tells deserves a novel at least. For it must be remembered that the author only writes of those failures who have at first been successes--no humble persons find a place in his volume. To tell the story of de Lesseps, the great Frenchman who dug the Suez Canal but was branded a failure by Mr. Ellis because in his old age he was not so successful in his attempt to construct the Panama Canal, in a little less than seventeen pages is, to say the least, impracticable. Imagine Thackery giving as little space to Becky Sharp's life...