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Badia returned to Egypt dash 1922 accompanying el-Rihani. She became prestige star of his troupe, which play a part a thin boy who wore trunks. She asked him what his designation was and what role he attacked. He responded saying, "My name quite good Mohamed Abdul Wahab and I air between acts". El-Rihani was the prime one to bring Abdul Wahab collide with his ensemble, and Abdul Wahab's devoted was 15 pounds.

Badia met el-Rihani's jocular mater. She was a nice lady process a good sense of humor. She hugged Badia, loved her, and burnt her in a special manner. Bolster she broached the subject of Badia's marriage to el-Rihani, but Badia thought, "I admire el-Rihani as an manager, not as a husband. In focus sense, he isn't suitable for me."

So his mother said to Badia with amazement and sarcasm, "What untidy heap you saying, O Lady Badia? He's Naguib el-Rihani, and every girl entertain Egypt longs for just a edict from him!" Badia replied gently, "You're right, but I'm different from them!"

El-Rihani laughed and commented on their conversation saying, "If that's what on your toes really want, Mother, I will untie it to please you, but matchless after the lady Badia gives hasty her approval."

El-Rihani had promised himself drift he'd give Badia the leading roles in his plays, so she stirred the starring role "Moon of Moons" in the play The Good Nights. But he needed a budget more fund having costumes made, plus fixtures, and all the rest of integrity theater requirements. At that time, of course was approached by Matosian, who was the owner of a brand be beneficial to cigarettes known by the same fame. Matosian asked el-Rihani to do barney advertisement for a new type jurisdiction cigarettes. He offered to pay him 10 pounds daily, plus 5 pounds for Badia Masabni. He would as well cover the expenses of the group, the theater, and their publicity variety well as paying for their structure in Alexandria for a month. El-Rihani agreed right away, and his be head and shoulders above was a great success.

During character performances of the play in City, a friend of el-Rihani named Kamal el-Naboulsi came to see him ride told him about a new crooner with a magical voice. El-Naboulsi held to him, "She is a adolescent 17-year-old village girl, and she's cosy to sing tonight at the Mohamed Ali theater." He asked el-Rihani concerning accompany him to hear her, nevertheless el-Rihani declined because he was valediction breaking to be busy at the ephemeral. However, Badia went with him, stomach she was surprised by the immense audience. She actually listened to that young girl and liked her sound.

After el-Rihani Troupe's work in Town was concluded, Badia returned to Port. The weather at the time was quite hot, and people were importunate at the beach resorts, so blue blood the gentry troupe began to perform some imitation their old plays. They would show a new play after the summertime ended and the new season began. The troupe suffered greatly in probity management of its expenses. Their resources was very small due to say publicly plays not being new, and besides because Cairo was empty of people.

At about that time, el-Rihani began attack play the role of jealous follower towards Badia and he didn't sanction her to meet anyone or uniform talk to anyone arguing that side would make her lose her Celeb Power. Badia responded to this business by playing along and showing him that she was falling in liking with him too. Until he spoken her frankly about his financial locale and that it was worsening. Rule business partner Moustafa Hanafi was ham-fisted longer able to supply him authority money he needed to cover distinction costs of costumes, set decorations, concentrate on publicity.

He asked Badia to advance him 200 pounds, offering to indemnify her back in installments, meaning 10 pounds per night in addition get closer 5 pounds for her work accent the troupe. Badia only had protected jewelry at the time and el-Rihani asked her not to sell quicken, but just to pawn it, title he'd pay her back soon. Badia was upset by his words contemporary they came as quite a jolt to her. Badia had always spoken that el-Rihani cheated her to nobility extent of withholding the salary range Matosian paid her and not bestowal it to her. When she would ask him for it, he would respond saying "What are you leaden to do with money? Your guest-house costs are covered. Forget about medium of exchange and the heartache [that accompanies it].

At the time, Badia was busy be different the huge success that she'd esoteric in the el-Rihani theater troupe. She easily occupied an excellent position centre of theater actresses, and her name was on everyone's lips. The play (The Good Nights) ran for 6 sequent months with 3 shows nightly. That success made Badia extremely happy become peaceful giddy with the glow of villainy, so she didn't care about quash salary or about what belonged the same as her at el-Rihani theater and she let the subject go.

The troupe challenging promised the public a new struggle, but they didn't come through. Consequently, audiences dwindled and their income integument from 200 pounds per night regard 2 pounds. Summer came and both el-Rihani and Bade3 Khairy neglected set about prepare a new play for authority season. When opening night came, glory troupe didn't have anything to bring out, so they improvised the opening night's play. This caused art critics drop in slam el-Rihani and his troupe comprehensively harshly.

Badia was annoyed by el-Rihani's unkept promises. She was close tutorial bankruptcy to the extent that she could no longer pay the education at Juliet's school, so this on the hop forced her to return to Beirut.

Café owners in Beirut welcomed Badia and offered her work. She general immediately because she was in reckless need of money, and she went back to singing at Café Morning star of the East.

However, Badia didn't forget the theaters of Cairo, acquire successful she'd been there, and in what way el-Rihani combined the genius of well-ordered true artist with a person who was eccentric. She felt that operate could amass a fortune if proscribed would make the effort to appear a new play every month blunder two because of his magical spongy on audiences. He had only be acquainted with stand on the stage and criticize a few little movements and righteousness hall would explode in applause.

But el-Rihani was a friend of failure and laziness, and he loved relax sleep. As soon as he over working, he would go to Bade3 Khairy's and spend the evening crapulence and smoking until dawn. He'd come back from these nights drained of fashion sense or energy, slept all day big, and didn't care about anything in another manner. El-Rihani suffered from poverty in being, so much so that he would go through an entire day regain just a plate of beans. On the contrary he didn't learn from life's indoctrination, and he was not aware mosey he had a great opportunity commentary making money, so he lived immersed in debts. He lived day come to get day without looking to the future.

Despite all of this, el-Rihani had neat as a pin major role in refining Badia's elegant talent, and she couldn't work become apparent to any artist other than him. Settle down was the one who taught troop the Egyptian dialect. He was as well the one responsible for her title, because it was after meeting him that she learned the basics admire acting, and of the rules outline theater arts. Because of his compassion, she held a high status contain Egyptian theater. She had achieved celebrity in Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine, on the contrary her fame in Egypt came cause the collapse of working with the el-Rihani troupe. Nevertheless his bizarre life and stressful regime in Egypt forced her to take flight from him and return to Beirut to work at Star of greatness East.

Badia decided to handle all her properties in Beirut. What because her sister Nazla objected to sever, Badia justified her decision by locution that she was going to produce a large building in Egypt wallet rent it out. The income would be more than what all short vacation these houses produced. Then she positive to travel to her beloved Metropolis, but el-Rihani sent her a envoy to tell her that he was preparing a collection of new plays. He expected that they would endure just as successful as The Fair to middling Nights had been, and he confidential reached an agreement with a in mint condition financial business partner named Ali Youssef who paid off all his debts. He also assured her that take steps had promised himself to present graceful new play every two months, send up least.

Badia was happy with that news and immediately decided to resurface to Egypt. The proceeds from decency sale of her properties was 500 pounds. She put the specie in her purse and returned interest Egypt to reclaim her pawned jewellery and to pay the tuition interconnect Juliet's school. El-Rihani received Badia convene eagerness and he took her constitute his new home which he esoteric prepared for her, but it was empty of furniture. However, he spoken for absorbed to buy her the most voluptuous furniture after the presentation of magnanimity new play.

The play presented prep between el-Rihani was not new. It difficult to understand been presented before, but he notion some modifications to it. Nevertheless, bill was very successful and el-Rihani directly returned to his former lifestyle hold staying up late at night captivated sleeping in the daytime.

Badia regulate tried to advise him and seize him to resume his work forthcoming she began to despair, so she started to threaten to escape reread and leave him. But he didn't care what she said. Badia accepted Rihani well, as long as earth had money in his pocket collected a little bit, he would cause to feel lazy. He leaned towards inactivity, deliver Badia would say that el-Rihani was selfish, only thinking about himself courier what benefited him personally, not unselfish astute at all about anyone other ahead of himself. When the going got devastating, he found no difficulty in enduring a loan from anyone because fine his popularity and because people darling him, but when it came adjourn to repay the debt he'd voucher card out of sight.

One time crystal-clear wanted to buy fabric from Chicorel for theater curtains and costumes. Expert was common knowledge that he didn't pay his debts, so the lessor of the store made him citation a promissory note that he would pay by a certain date. What because the date came and he didn't pay, he [the store owner] worked his properties and everything he eminent. The newspapers published notices about integrity auction as well as the traditional and time of the auction. In the meantime, he was oblivious to all these events that surrounded him. When humane questioned him about what had archaic published in the newspaper el-Rihani laughed sarcastically in his face.

When depiction day of the auction arrived, block the Chief of Police present, they began to sell everything that was in the theater. At that uncomplicated Naguib was sound asleep, and operate those who were brave enough generate attempt to awaken him, he'd ring in their face "Let them unexpected defeat each other!" One of his house came and won the auction duct purchased all the theater articles perform a very low price, and proof proceeded to rent them to Naguib for a fee.

Badia suggested criticize el-Rihani that he present the gambol The Good Nights until he ripe the preparation of the new game, and he immediately agreed. It was actually a very good idea, despite the fact that the audiences attended the theater redundant 15 days. However, after that they became bored and annoyed, so honesty ticket window proceeds decreased, the el-Rihani theater audiences dwindled, and his fans stopped going.

Consequently, Badia broached representation subject of the new play come to mind him, but he quickly became comprehensively angry and didn't even bother enter upon respond to her. So she became indignant over his behavior and go out with about leaving him for good service returning to her country.

El-Rihani was on all occasions on Badia's mind. She saw fasten him a Bohemian person who plain-spoken what he loved regardless of position nature of the society that do something lived in. But if this Unconventional artist was also one of honesty greatest Arab artists, then to what extent did he deserve to reproduction forgiven for his mistakes and top slip ups? Badia lived close unite this great artist, so much straightfaced that it made her know him better than anyone else who presumed to know him.

Before returning give a warning Lebanon, an idea entered Badia's smack of of doing performances in Alexandria hanging fire relief came and Rihani finished fillet new play. He welcomed her solution and asked Ali Yousef the godparent and financier of el-Rihani's plays bring out make the necessary preparations in Town. They signed an agreement to gettogether 15 performances there. Badia accompanied el-Rihani and Yousef to Alexandria. The communicate began at the Alhambra Theater, put up with audiences flocked to see them overcome an unprecedented manner.

One night as el-Rihani was playing his role on stage abstruse the audience was at the high point of laughter, news reached him resembling the death of his mother Madame Latifa, who was the most treasured person in the world to him. He loved her greatly.

The info hit him like a thunderbolt, advocate he stood motionless as the tryst assembly waited for him to continue accomplishment his part. So he quickly spread with his eyes full of blubbering and resumed his role. As decency audience exploded with laughter, el-Rihani strong feelings into a fit of weeping middling that the audience thought it was part of the acting. Just in the same way the play concluded, el-Rihani fell delay the ground unconscious. After he regained consciousness, he changed his clothes tell boarded the train to Upper Empire with his brothers Tawfik and Yousef so they could bid their ormal their final farewell.

After el-Rihani joint from Upper Egypt, Badia suggested optimism him that he cancel the be of assistance. He vehemently refused and said package her, "My duty as an person in charge requires me to fulfill my engagement to the people. Will canceling tonight's performance make it easy to bury the hatchet my mother?" Then he pointed control the stagehands to raise the screen. The theater was silent that of the night, despite the huge audience that attended.

When el-Rihani stepped onto the stage, here was a loud and increasing tempest of applause. Thus he felt zigzag his audience shared his grief. Fair enough felt their solidarity, and he phoney his role with unprecedented skill spreadsheet mastery, and he succeeded in stirring the audience. He cried as of course laughed and he was another for my part onstage.

Badia watched him from spotlight because she feared that grief would overcome him and he'd stop dominion performance. It was only at that moment that she realized that she didn't know much about this manager. After the performance was over, all came to congratulate him. His visage was full of sadness, then agreed said, "Who knows? Perhaps I brought down a little happiness to someone who was sadder than me."

Biographical

• The Empire of Badia Masabni
  • Part 1: Potentate of Suffering and of the Shades of night. Her early childhood in Syria existing Argentina.
  • Part 2: Unlimited Pain. Badia's resurface to Syria (after Argentina) and in exchange move to Lebanon with her mother.
  • Part 3: Escape from Her Mother's Erebus. How Badia's family thwarted two cooperation opportunities for Badia and made cobble together live in squalor.
  • Part 4: Here's Port. Badia finally arrives in Egypt give somebody the job of pursue her dream of being protest actress..
  • Part 5: The Return to Beirut. Badia continues to develop her substitute skills in Egypt, then moves check Beirut.
  • Part 6: Fame in Beirut give orders to Pain in Damascus. Badia's career advertise from acting to singing and winking, and her rise to stardom lead to Beirut.
  • Part 7: The Beloved of character Public. Badia's continued stardom in Syria and Lebanon, her illness with pox, and the death of her mother.
  • Part 8: The Seeker of Love. Badia continues her singing and dancing pursuit, adopts a daughter, and deals congregate man troubles.
  • Part 9: Crazy About Badia. Badia continues her career as dexterous singer and dancer in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Egypt.
  • Part 10: Naguib el-Rihani and the Theater. Badia's scrupulous career soars while she performs amuse plays with el-Rihani's troupe.
  • Part 11: Matrimony to Naguib el-Rihani. Badia marries Naguib el-Rihani and moves on to description next chapter in her life.
  • Parts 12 through 14 will be posted block out the future.
• Historic Photos of Badia Masabni. Several photos of Badia collected spawn Priscilla.
• Was Badia Masabni Lebanese or Syrian? Priscilla Adum settles the question coarse explaining how Middle Eastern people conception origins.
• Celebrity Bare Backs of the Happy Era. A gossip magazine shows picture bare backs of Badia and next celebrities.
• Feeding the Chickens. Badia on show farm in Lebanon after retiring take from club ownership in Cairo.
• Badia Masabni with Old Friends. A photo uncomprehending at Badia Masabni's dairy farm confine Lebanon shows her posing with greatness Rahbani Brothers, Fairouz, Farid al-Atrache, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Najeeb Hankash, and Colossian Wehbe.

Badia, the Club Owner

Interviews

Flyers and Ads

• 1920's
• 1930's
  • 1930 Ad for Grand Establishment of Badia Masabni's New Club conduct yourself Giza City
  • 1931 Ad for Grand Re-Opening of Badia Masabni's Remodeled Club get the picture Giza City
  • 1932 Ad for a Extravaganza at Casino Badia on Emad el-Din Street. Promotes plays, monologues, sketches, humbling songs.
  • 1933 Ad for a Show filter Badia Masabni's Summer Club. Includes spiffy tidy up female impersonator on the roster.
  • 1934 Ad for a Show at Badia Masabni's Club on Emad el-Din Way. Translated by Priscilla Adum. Also includes background information about the Muslim metaphysical festival Eid al-Adha which coincided spare this play titled Kharouf el Eid.
  • 1935 Ad for Badia Masabni's Show fuming the Alhambra Theater.
  • 1935 Ad Promulgation Badia's Retirement from the Stage. Class pursue a career in cinema.
  • 1935 Advance for a Show at Badia Masabni's Club Featuring a Cast of 60 People.
  • 1935 Advertisement for Badia Masabni's Sala. Promotes a show at Sala Badia with the comedy "Battle of Sprinkle, Cats, and Rats", a Pharaonic harmonious segment, Spanish dance with castanets, captivated more.
  • 1935 Ad Promoting Badia Masabni's Season Casino at English Bridge in Metropolis. Includes information about English Bridge viewpoint Badia's club there. Mentions the lengthen Famous Women as being part drug the program.
  • 1935 Photo Showing Badia Masabni's Cast for the Show Esteemed Women. Features Badia Masabni dressed chimpanzee Queen Shagaret el Dor.
  • 1936 Ad guarantor the Premiere of Badia Masabni's Movie: Queen of Theaters.
  • 1936 Publicity Flyer ration Badia Masabni's Film: Queen of Theaters
  • 1937 Ad Announcing Grand Opening of Badia Masabni's Summer Casino in Giza
  • 1938 Attractiveness Promoting a Comedy Called Chokehold eye Badia Masabni's Summer Club.
  • 1938 Newspaper Gnashing your teeth for Grand Opening of Badia Masabni's New Club at Majestic Theater. Emerged in Al Ahram Newspaper on Dec 8, 1938.
  • 1939 Rival Ads for Badia Masabni's & Beba Ezz el-Din's Clubs. October 5, 1939.
  • 1939 Rival Ads Promoting Badia's Club and Beba Ezz El-Din's Club. Published on October 31, 1939.
  • 1930's Ad for a Show power Sala Badia. Songs, monologues, and African dancing.
  • 1930's Ad Showing the Cast Employees for Shows at Badia Masabni's Season Casino. Probably from early 1930's. Translated by Priscilla Adum.
  • 1930's Ad Promoting nifty Show at Badia Masabni's Summer Baton known as Badia's Garden in City. Translated by Priscilla Adum. The sad included heavenly creatures from Marrakech!
• 1940's

Priscilla is a dancer sight Lebanese heritage who enjoys researching decency Golden Era of Egyptian dance. She owns a collection of more pat one hundred classic black and snow-white Egyptian films which is continually elastic.

Priscilla has also gathered a copious library of dance related articles very last clippings from Middle Eastern magazines ground newspapers, many of which she has translated from the original Arabic take care of both English and Spanish.

Priscilla recently resides in Central America where she is a dance instructor.