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Today, in Peking at the semibarbaric court of the great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, Mrs. Wellington Koo is par excellence the cosmopolitan aristocrat of feminine China...
...HARD-BOILED VIRGIN - Frances Newman - Boni & Liveright ($2.50). A sophisticated Southern aristocrat learns about herself...
...fortune was estimated at between forty and fifty millions. He had fastened a prodigious habit upon his countrymen, who today drink 7,000,000 little brown glasses every 24 hours in response to $5,000,000 per annum of advertising. And so a miracle had happened in Georgia. An aristocrat, a South-ener, had beaten modern industry. "Merchant Prince of the South," they called him; "First Citizen of Atlanta." He accepted his honors gravely. Why should he have been flustered ? He was not a nouveau; his was no rags-to-riches story but the far rarer reversal by which blood...
...Manhattan, parsed verbs, declined nouns and pronouns. He already speaks fluently French, Russian, German, Greek, Italian, Turkish- no English. He has 18 days in which to learn English before his passport expires. He will then be handed a U. S. Army enlistment examination. If he passes, this young aristocrat who has fought from Smyrna to the Ukraine will become a doughboy. Failure means deportation to Russia...
...this new glorification of the melting pot, all the trouble starts when Mr. Van Dorn, blueblood, announces a prejudice against the prospect of an Italian daughter-in-law and a Jewish son-in-law. "We gotta get outta this neighborhood!" shouts the agitated aristocrat again and again. He thinks that, by moving, the love of democratic young Americans can be thwarted. Mrs. Van Dorn disapproves of her husband's arbitrary ways. Through her, Playwright William Perlman brings out the salient point that Mr. Van Dorn is not justified in assuming Castilian airs, because, even if the Van Dorns...