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...saved Europe in 1683. Had he prudently stayed at home Vienna would have been sacked by the Turks within five days of the date of the Polish king's victory. With the city's fall most of Europe would have been at the pleasure of the Grand Vizier. But Sobieski, the only European warrior who could stop the Turks, was respected and feared by Islam. When the crucial fight got under way King John, at the head of troops outnumbered five to one, literally hewed his way with his Polish sabre through the heart of the battle...
Timoor Tash, Grand Vizier of Persia's Riza Shah Pahlavi, making a "visit of courtesy and friendship" to Soviet Russia, was entertained by his hosts at the trotting races in the Moscow hippodrome. Surrounded by fur-hatted Russian officers and highest diplomats, the so-called "brains of the Persian State" sat protected from the bitter cold in a glass-sided box while the rubber-tired sulkies skimmed around the track in the light of electroliers and a crescent moon. At Timoor Tash's side, talking of "Asia for the Asiatics," sat General Budenny who, like the Grand Vizier...
Frank Weston Benson of Salem, Mass. He was a painter for 30 years before he began etching, and won enough medals to satisfy a grand vizier. He was one of "The Ten Americans" who made artistic history a decade or more ago; his paintings as well as his prints are in many museums. His etchings indicate his favorite pastime ?hunting and sketching wildfowl in lonely marshes. They bring higher prices than those of any living U. S. artist. A recent exhibition catalog, stating the prices of other etchers' works, tactfully omitted mention of Benson's prices, but the initial...
Production is to start this winter in Palestine. A troupe of religiously mixed actors is to leave Manhattan in October. On schedule are 100 two-reel stories, some with dialog, some without. Some titles: "Abel, the Shepherd of Eden," "Joseph, the Vizier of Egypt," "David, the Shepherd King," "Ruth, the Widow of Moab," "Isaiah, the Poet-Prophet of Israel...
...Great Intellectual, the boy that Kid Shakespeare knocked for a row of midnight oilcans, will exchange bopps on the beak with the New Zealand Menace, the Plumber's Son, the Horseshoe Carpenter. They will attempt to put the snooze on each other, while the Grand Vizier of the Golden Gate takes in slightly more or slightly less than one million smackers...