Warner Brothers produced the first screen operetta, The Desert Song in 1929.

Hammerstein also collaborated with Vincent Youmans ( Wildflower ), Rudolf Friml ( Rose-Marie ), and Sigmund Romberg ( The Desert Song and The New Moon ).

* Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II & Otto Harbach — The Desert Song ( 1926 ) and film ( 1929 )

** 1926 The Desert Song ( music Romberg )

Loy's silent film roles were mainly those of vamps or femme fatales, and she frequently portrayed characters of Asian or Eurasian background in films such as Across the Pacific, A Girl in Every Port, The Crimson City, The Black Watch, and The Desert Song, which she later recalled "... kind of solidified my exotic non-American image.

One of them was a Bunnell composition called " Desert Song ", which Dexter previously demoed during studio rehearsals in Puddletown, Dorset at the home of Arthur ' God of Hellfire ' Brown.

While on loan to Warner Bros., her first musical release was The Desert Song, May 1953, alongside Gordon MacRae.

She was asked to perform La bohème at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado, but due to her filming obligations for The Desert Song, she had to turn it down.

In 1952, Grayson was offered more than $ 10, 000 to perform for a week at the Riviera night club in New Jersey before making The Desert Song.

After filming The Desert Song, Grayson created a recording of the musical with Tony Martin.

* The Desert Song, 1943

* The Desert Song starring John Boles, Carlotta King, Louise Fazenda and Myrna Loy.

*" The Desert Song " by Nat Shilkret, from the musical of the same name

*" One Alone " by Nat Shilkret, from " The Desert Song "

*" The Riff Song " by Nat Shilkret, vocal the Revelers, from " The Desert Song "

* The Desert Song ( Sigmund Romberg )-London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on April 7 and ran for 432 performances

* " The Desert Song " w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg.

Introduced by Vivienne Segal and Robert Halliday in the operetta The Desert Song

* The Desert Song ( Sigmund Romberg )-Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on November 30 and ran for 471 performances

Hammerstein, a co-writer of the popular Rudolf Friml 1924 operetta Rose-Marie, and Sigmund Romberg operettas The Desert Song ( 1926 ) and The New Moon ( 1928 ), began a successful collaboration with composer Jerome Kern on Sunny ( 1925 ), which was a hit.

* – Otto Harbach, MA, lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies, including Rose Marie and The Desert Song.

* Melospiza melodia fallax, Desert Song Sparrow.

When Humphries was on the BBC's Desert Island Discs radio programme in 2009, he made the following choices: " Mir ist der Ehre widerfahren " from Strauss ’ Der Rosenkavalier ; Gershwin's " Things are Looking Up " sung by Fred Astaire ; " Love Song " composed by Josef Suk ; " On Mother Kelly's Doorstep " sung by Randolph Sutton ; " Der Leiermann " from Schubert's Winterreise song cycle ; the 2nd movement of Poulenc's Flute Sonata ; Mischa Spoliansky's " Auf Wiedersehen "; and " They are not long the weeping and the laughter " from Delius ' Songs of Sunset.

He subsequently wrote his best-known operettas, The Student Prince ( 1924 ), The Desert Song ( 1926 ) and The New Moon ( 1928 ), which are in a style similar to the Viennese operettas of Franz Lehár.

Libyan Desert silica-glass, another natural glass, is composed of nearly pure silica and has the same trace germanium content as sands in the area.

This glass is probably formed from Libyan Desert sands by comet or stony-meteorite impact.

The largest of these level areas, the Great Karoo, is a dry, barren region, and a large tract of the plateau proper is of a still more arid character and is known as the Kalahari Desert.

Although the facilities at the range are managed by the 99th Air Base Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, the Groom facility appears to be run as an adjunct of the Air Materiel Command Air Force Flight Test Center ( AFFTC ) at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, around southwest of Groom, and as such the base is known as Air Force Flight Test Center ( Detachment 3 ).

The area is agriculturally poor except in the river valleys, being rough and mountainous towards the south, but subsiding into undulating wastes and pasture-lands towards the Karakum Desert.

The Kalahari Desert is in the central and the southwest.

However, Bethlehem is affected also by annual waves of hot, dry, sandy and dust Khamaseen winds from the Arabian Desert, during April, May and mid-June.

In the Sayings of the Desert Fathers, many of which antedate the fourth century, there is frequent evidence of individual anchorites possessing in book-form collections of the Psalms.

This then is our earliest evidence of monks praying the Psalms as the main part of their daily scripted and Scriptural prayer regimen: the Desert Fathers.

Recent linguistic research suggests that all of Africa's major language groupings south of the Sahara Desert ( except Khoisan, which is not considered a valid genetic grouping anyway ), i. e. the Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger – Congo phyla, originated in prehistoric times in a narrow band between Lake Chad and the Nile Valley.

N ' Djamena, the capital, is located more than 1, 100 kilometers northeast of the Atlantic Ocean ; Abéché, a major city in the east, lies 2, 650 kilometers from the Red Sea ; and Faya-Largeau, a much smaller but strategically important center in the north, is in the middle of the Sahara Desert, 1, 550 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea.

The summit of this formation — as well as the highest point in the Sahara Desert — is Emi Koussi, a dormant volcano that reaches 3, 414 meters above sea level.

The seventh largest lake in the world ( and the fourth largest in Africa ), Lake Chad is located in the sahelian zone, a region just south of the Sahara Desert.

The word Cholistan is derived from the Turkish word Chol, which means Desert.

The Cholistan Desert Jeep Rally | Cholistan Jeep Rally is held in the city every year in the Cholistan desert

Transmontane chaparral features xeric desert climate-not Mediterranean climate habitats, and is also referred to as Desert chaparral.

Desert chaparral is a regional ecosystem subset of the Deserts and xeric shrublands Biome, with some plant species from the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion.

Transmontane chaparral or Desert chaparral is found on the eastern slopes of major mountain range systems on the western sides of the deserts of California.

* Opuntia phaecantha, Desert prickly pear ( fruit is important food source for animals )

Nearby is also the semi-arid area known as the Accona Desert.

Dance is still used for this purpose by many cultures from the Brazilian rainforest to the Kalahari Desert.

Through the Desert ( Into the Desert in older edition ) is similar to The Four Islands, but consists of a large continent and smaller outlying islands.