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...guiding principle of the Phoenix is aggressive eclecticism. Theater, say its producers, "means many things to many people. The minstrel show, tent show, vaudeville, Shakespearean repertory, newly discovered European playwrights, experiments in expressionism and constructivism, a platform for a social message. the magic of Irving Berlin and of Rodgers and Hart or Hammerstein musicals...
Abdullah's country was scarcely bigger than Indiana, a black-tent kingdom populated by nomadic Bedouins. But the Arab Legion, which the British created and supported for him, made Abdullah a power among the ill-organized Arab armies of the Middle East. Abdullah was a strong-minded aristocrat who used to tell his Cabinets: "Do what I say, or I'll get another government in the morning." He dreamed of an Arab "Greater Syria," a state that would include Trans-Jordan, Syria, Palestine and Lebanon...
Murder used to be all a mystery novelist needed to get on with his story. The new whodunits stick to that main tent at traction, but beckon the jaded customers with such lurid little sideshows as sadism, pandering, homosexuality, counterfeiting, prostitution, adultery and grave-robbing...
Desert Welcome. Britain created Jordan in the '20s to provide a throne for its World War I ally the Hashemite Emir Abdullah. Glubb arrived from Iraq to work for Abdullah's dusty, black-tent Bedouin kingdom. How, asked Abdullah's father, had Glubb traveled? "Riding a camel," said the newcomer, in fluent Arabic. "By Allah!" exclaimed the old warrior. "This one is a Bedouin...
Natty Faith Healer Roberts stormed up and down his platform calling on the halt and lame to come forward. But adverse publicity kept the crowds small (5,000 in a tent that holds 14,000) and the contributions even smaller. Last week Healer Roberts moved on to Melbourne. His stated quota: 1,000,000 conversions before next July...