The famous brother-and-sister singing stars Farid al-Atrash and Asmahan star in a story that echoes their own life struggles. The two leave Lebanon for Egypt to seek fame and fortune, but encounter a number of obstacles to success and love. Both fall for aristocrats, and although things look bleak, this is a musical, after all, so class can be happily bridged by love-and the singers are able to mount the operetta they had worked on for so long. As a musical, The Triumph of Youth reflects the strong pre-revolutionary investment in the "marriage" of different classes, and lends the cloak of respectability to once looked-down-upon public performers.-Alia Arasoughly