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...languages. Had City Lights been a failure, Hollywood would have been personally and bitterly depressed. But Hollywood was not depressed. Neither was it frightened. For though City Lights is a successful silent challenge to the talkies, its success derives solely from the little man with the battered hat, bamboo cane and black mustache. Critics agree that he, whose posterior would probably be recognized by more people throughout the world than would recognize any other man's face, will be doing business after talkies have been traded in for television...
Women picketers stood in the street, cheered on by Gandhi-capped bystanders, shrilly squealing Nationalist songs. Police, swinging heavy six-foot bamboo lathis, charged. Picketers clenched their teeth, took the blows as they fell. Injured were rushed off to hospitals, other pickets took their place, the singing recommenced, the police charged again, and so on through the day. By nightfall 250 people were badly injured, 400 arrested. Out of a registered electorate of 60,000, only 1,473 succeeded in recording their votes...
...Problem in which they thought he defamed their public integrity and private morals. The Balintawac meeting at which 20,000 were expected was the feeble culmination of vigorous political agitation. A copy of the Roosevelt book was violently hammered on an anvil, doused in kerosene, burned on a bamboo pyre before the statue of Andres Bonifacio, one of the native leaders of the vain 1896 revolution against Spain. When a peasant in the crowd shouted Matay si Roosevelt ("Death to Roosevelt"), leaders quickly hushed...
Other leprosy news of last week: the opening of Leonard Wood Hospital at Cebu, Philippine Islands. Built of concrete and bamboo, it is a 26-building hospital big enough for 700 patients...
...dancing. Fearsome, comic masks and face-painting, costumes, and a whole intricate play of gesture have complex, traditional significances (stooping, for instance, means passing under a lintel, i. e., entering another house). The singing is accompanied by one musician producing whining, squealing sounds on the Hu-ch'in (bamboo bow-and-string instrument), by others tapping wood blocks, striking cymbals, plunking rudimentary banjos. Their approaches to harmony are painful to western ears; their rhythms are often complex syncopations, recognizable by jazz enthusiasts...