| Photograph: Sir Aubrey, Roger Carlyle, Hypatia Masters, and Dr. Robert Huston emerging from a dinner in their honor at the Turf Club. The men are wearing tuxedos, and Hypatia is beautifully gowned. Carlyle looks young and dashing; Huston is darker and older, with a somewhat worried smile; Sir Aubrey is white-haired and distinguished; Hypatia looks relaxed. A man in a tight tuxedo in the background might be Jack Brady, but as a mere employee he is unidentified. |
Carlyle Expedition Feted in Cairo
Cairo extended a warm welcome to the Carlyle Expedition last Wednesday at the Turf Club, with a lavish reception hosted by Mr. Omar Shakti. The leader of the expedition, Mr. Roger Carlyle of New York City, USA, expressed his delight at being in the “Land of the Pharaohs” and promised “discoveries that would startle the work of archeology”. The scientific advisor to the expedition, Sir Aubrey Penhew of London, expressed his pleasure at returning to Egypt after an absence of several years. Sir Aubrey is the Director of the noted Penhew Foundation and has led eight previous archeological expeditions. Other principals of the expedition included New York socialite Miss Hypatia Masters and Dr. Robert Huston, also of New York City.The Carlyle Expedition is the first major archeological expedition to arrive in Egypt since the Armistice and it is hoped that it represents a harbinger of great advances in our knowledge of Egyptian civilization.
- CAIRO BULLETIN, May 12, 1919