Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1913 — HERE'S NEW TYPE OF DESERT [ARTICLE]

HERE'S NEW TYPE OF DESERT

Those Who Have Seen the Real Thing Would Be Surprised at Pictorial Representation. Those who have lived In Egypt will And a source of unending surprise in the scenic offerings of "high class vaudeville" which accompany the throaty howling by a near barytone of "I Shall Love Tew Till the Hot Desert Freezes Eternally," illustrated with pictures from the East (side). It

should be noted here that it is hardly fair to call a locality a "desert” at all, when it is so plentifully peopled with the cosmopol/tan races presented to the public on the screen. The pictures show a wild profusion of Bedouins, Chinese, Arabs, Moors, Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians and Turks, with a fair sprinkling of Roman senators, in every conceivable garb, ancient and modern, lounging comfortably around the pyramids and smoking Havana cigars, English pipes, hookahs and cigarettes and mostly

chewing gum. But If in his choice of population the scenic artist has done well in Egyptian scenery he has certalnly surpassed himself, for you behold great clusters of pyramids, sphinxes by the dozen, camels, horses, sheep, deer, ostriches and even _ elephants crossing the soft sand of the alleged desert or resting beneath the English oaks, Lombardy poplars, cactus and palm trees. And before you can get your breath a gallant knight in the uniform of the Austrian hussars, covered with a kl-

mono and a scimitar stuck in his belt, brings his sultana into the moonlight and hugs her until the everlasting desert is removed and the applause of the audience freezes over.—New York Herald.