• On Saturday, May 3, Beirut College for Women held its annual dramatic celebration, presenting the play "Wallada and Ibn Zaydun," which proved, as is its custom, a marvel of acting and staging — the more so since the men's roles were entrusted to young men, and the joint participation of young men and young women in the acting was an encouraging precedent that helped make the evening a success.

The play's director, Miss Marie Sabri, an instructor at the institute, welcomed the audience and thanked them for their kind confidence and encouragement, announcing that the proceeds of the evening would be devoted to the project for reviving the villages and combating illiteracy.

The play was distinguished by careful attention to the quality of the dancing and singing: the dances were supervised by Miss Samia Saab, and the melodies of the songs were composed by the Rahbani Brothers... The play was given again a second night in response to the public's wish and in view of the great demand it met with.

• Another performance that has won admiration of late is the play "Women and Secrets," presented by the Beirut center of the Orthodox Youth on the stage of the Dunya Cinema, under the patronage of the First Lady of Lebanon, Mrs. Zalfa Chamoun.

• This season of every year is distinguished by the harvest: every institution reaps what it has sown and is eager to announce to the public the results of its work throughout that year. And women's institutions stand out as more attentive to these annual performances, and more accomplished in them, than the institutions of the men.

The play "Women and Secrets" was written and directed by the woman of letters Mrs. Asma Tubi, who has accustomed us every year to presenting one of her dramatic masterpieces, drawn from the very heart of our social and human life.

Mrs. Asma Tubi opened the evening with an eloquent word on the importance of the theater, its national mission, and its vitality by virtue of the living presence of the actors, whereas the cinema gives us dry pictures with neither life nor soul in them...

Taking part in the acting was a bouquet of young girls, the Misses: Lodi Habib, Pauline Said, Najiba Ghanmiyah, Maki Trabulsi, Nihad Abi Murad, Laure Tu'mah, Maha Mitri, Renée Roumi, Jacqueline Haddad, Nadia Murr, Nadia Haddad, and Marcelle Abdel Massih.

The play "Women and Secrets" met with notable success, and word went around in literary circles that it might be performed again — all thanks to the energy and zeal of the literary lady Mrs. Asma Tubi.

The first of these events, which the refined artistic circles received with admiration and appreciation, was that unique artistic evening given by Mrs. Maria Siliathi for her pupils on the stage of the Capitol Cinema, under the patronage of His Excellency the Minister of National Education and Fine Arts, Mr. Pierre Eddé.

The hall was packed with the most refined classes of society — those who appreciate ballet dancing at its true worth and long to see it flourish in Lebanon, as in the civilized countries, at the hands of this artist-teacher in her art institute devoted to this refined, universal form of the dance.

More than a hundred girls, ranging in age from six to twenty years, took part in performing the rhythmic, symbolic dances; and the simple, splendid dances, and those inspired by the theater of nature itself, were full of wonderful artistic and emotional stirrings...

The audience of spectators, whose number exceeded a thousand, expressed its admiration in storms of warm applause. We may say that this artistic evening achieved a greater success than in any previous year.