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Show Land of the Magic Lamp Now Open For Visitors in South Mcah The Land of the Magic Lamp opened its doors for business this past weekend. The facility is the work cf Mr. and Mrs. Norman Taylor Tay-lor of Moab, owners of Moab Apparel and Taylor's Decorating Decor-ating Service. The Taylors and their son Mike have spent some two years in in-t-ensive construction of the artful items on display in The Land of the Magic Lamp. A Persian guide meets the customer at the door, then conducts them to a lower level in the complex of rooms The story of Shaharazad is introduced and progresses by means of murals, Oriental architecture, landscapes, figures fig-ures and beautifully decorated decorat-ed rooms and corridors. Arabian Nights, which Mts Taylor says she read with avid interest as a girl, is brought to life in Hie Land, of the Magic Lamp. It appears ap-pears that a certain Sultan was in a rotten mood and beheaded one of his wives daily. Shaharazad was next to have her head removed but she cleverly asked th? Sultan if she might toll him a story. Her story continued well into the night and past the head-chopping event thr? next morning. The Sultan was so fascinated he postponed post-poned the event in order to listen to the remainder rf the story. Shaharazad with her stories captured the Sultan's Sul-tan's heart and prevented the beheadng. Visitors to the Land of tlv: Magic Lamp are conducted from one scene to another. A desert scene has a brilliantly colored tent in which is found a harem with a guard holding a head of one of the Sultan's wives. A Mosque is also entered and Shaharazad is seen dancing around liu: Sultan. On the other side ot the courtyard a cave is entered en-tered thick with stalactites and a genie. The tour ends in another portion of the courtyard at a pagoda. The Taylors have opened only a portion of their artis-ic artis-ic plan. Mrs. Taylor said earlier that it is expected 1 1.1 be a five year project. The first portion on Arabian Nights and Allah Baba will entertain Moab's visitors this summer season. The family project has taken ta-ken an immense amount of study into the costumes )? the Orient as well as a study stu-dy of the architecture. The Taylors have used their own talents in const met ing the many scenes through "'which visitors are now able to move. The Land or the Manic Man-ic Lamp has been a longtime long-time dream of Mrs. Taylor. When on n trip through Moab Mo-ab some years ago, Mrs. Taylor was taken by the "Arabian Nights" setting ,f this community and at. that lime determined t original-; her dream of making "those tales come lo lit,- lm.. |