Word: viziers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Hanighen, cast as Selint, the traitorous friend of Hassan, is the musical director for "Hassan." Thurber takes the role of Ishak, the Caliph's poet attendant. The part of Jafar, the Caliph's Vizier, will be played by Jones, who has performed in previous shows of the Dramatic Club and in several amateur productions including "Turandot." Myers, taking the part of Masrur, an attendant of the Caliph, has also been in other Dramatic Club shows...
...Story. On the shores of Lake Undega in New York State is Berkenmeer. Its Main Street has a gaudy haberdashery shop, but there are also ancient elm trees that once sheltered a tougher tribe of Yankees. Arthur Gordon, a descendant, is the grand vizier of Berkenmeer. With an air of detached gentility, he saw to it that "the hay was got in from the golf links before a thunder shower, dances were run off with no deficit, horses were not frightened "by steamrollers. . . ." An ebullient Rotary had begun to suspect him of not being a big enough booster. But such...
...murder in the first degree", declared Bob Lampoon, the incomparable jester, grand vizier and high lama at all of Lampy's festive functions. "When vandals slunk down under cover of a black and windy night and sever the life's blood of a tree, cherished by me for over three years, it is then time for the Cambridge Police to send in riot calls, and to deal death in the Brattle Square Police Station without the fruitless efforts of a trial...