Behind Turkish Lattices the Story of a Turkish Womans Life
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At these visits there are coffee, cigarettes, and conversation. The B air am calls are most scrupulously made by a polite Turk. The great social occasions of hanums 1 life are the weddings, and next to those in interest are the circumcisions. It is possible to attend an inferior sort of theatre nowa- days, as there are occasional little theatres exclusively for women. Also, there are a few theatres with a partition down the middle of the auditorium dividing the men from the women, and somewhat ...hiding the stage. At these theatres the plays have generally been a poor sort of European play, put on by Turkish men and Armenian women, for of course no Moslem woman would appear before the foot- lights. But since the revolution a number of Turkish plays have been produced, imperfect in 104 HOW A WOMAN AMUSES HERSELF structure, but full of patriotism intensely pleas- ing to the Ottoman population. The favourite of these plays is called Fatherland, and was played by many groups of amateurs during the months after the July revolution.
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