Word: satraps
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...studied in Paris, and, as scarcely more than a student, created one of the roles in Pelleas under the coaching of Debussy. Then, with a brilliant career in her hands, she married a Hollander, an official in the East Indies. To Java she went to preside over a satrap's strange eastern household. She lived there for several years. As a powerful white functionary's wife, she moved as a great person among the potentates of the oriental island. She tells of living as an honored guest in the harem of the Sultan of Solo. The orient entered...