The Exhibition

Mr. Musa has not yet played the role of a father in real life!

As for Mr. Medawar, the play's director, there is no better way to describe his success than what Mrs. Rihan said to him when we met at her home about a week after the play: "I had been longing, Ustad, to see you, so I could make certain you had gone back to being what you were." For people had almost come to believe that, after such acting, no good could ever again come from him, and they were not reassured until they gathered with him after the play and found that he had once more become the Mr. Medawar they had always known.

Mr. Albert Badre, who took a principal role in the play, is no stranger to the stage; he is an author and a director and one of the lovers of refined acting, and he has proved that, despite his withdrawal from the stage for his various affairs, he still yearns for it with the longing of a gifted expert.

Mr. Kazan was fortunate in the choice of his role, and excelled in it.

And the role of Mr. Fuad Badr, short as it was, sufficed to prove Mr. Badr's ability in this art, for he managed to play the

role of the old man, the killer in disguise — though he is no old man, no killer, and no man in disguise...

Nor shall I forget the role played by Mr. Salah Abboushi, who made the audience laugh as "Uncle Ni'ma" without ever overstepping the bounds of good taste. And although there are those who slight certain short roles, I hold that they display competence exactly as the great roles do; my proof of it is the success of Messrs. Joseph Ghosn, Sami Najjar, and Antoine Bajaazi in their short roles.

There remains one small general word which I must say, after having recorded the play's suc-cess in authorship and in direc-tion: it is that our theater — and I do not think Mr. Medawar would disagree with me here — succeeds in proportion as its language draws close to life.

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Telegraphic dispatches have brought us the glad tidings of the marriage of the rising young man Mr. Nadim Dimashqiyah, commercial attaché at the Lebanese Legation in London, to the cultured and refined young lady Miss Margaret Sherlock, of an old and distinguished English family.

The marriage rites were performed at the House of Arab Culture and then at the Lebanese Legation, in the presence of a select company of Lebanese and foreign friends, admirers of the virtues of the two noble newlyweds.

In appreciation of the efforts of our distinguished bridegroom, and of the activity and the commend-able national services he performs, His Excellency the Minister Hamid Bey Frangieh, head of the Lebanese delegation, gave a splendid dinner party in honor of the couple at Claridge's Hotel, attended by ministers, members of the Arab delega-tions, and a number of respected personalities.

As we wish our enterprising compatriot and his well-bred bride a happy marriage joined with felicity and success, we offer to his hon-orable father, the well-known notable Badr Bey, and to his mother, the great woman of letters Mrs. Julia, our most sincere expressions of congratulation and blessing, wishing the bride and groom sons, a life of plenty, and length of days.