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The best characterizations were done by E. Alyn Warren as Lo Sang Kee, the cultured and dignified old Chinaman and E. G. Robinson as the vulgar and blatant half caste, Charlie Young. Lewis Ayres makes an ornamental hero and Lupe Velez has her moments, but she has a tendency towards...

Author: By S. H. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/21/1930 | See Source »

Laid in the Dutch colonies of the Far East, Insult's main characters are: a testy old major, his fair-haired daughter-in-law, and the dashing half-caste officer who is a friend of her husband and in love with her. Enraged by the major, the half-caste strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 29, 1930 | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

Only means yet discovered of reaching high altitudes is offered by the rocket, with which scientific men have hesitated to experiment. They feel sure they will lose professional caste, be branded as cranks who are attempting to go to the moon. To curb such gossip rocketeers hive been more emphatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rocketeering | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

Gold Braid is an unambitious little play which has to do with U. S. Army folk quartered in the Philippines. Playwright Ann Shelby, reported to be the wife of an Army officer and apparently wishing to give everyone in the audience at least a smattering of his or her favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 26, 1930 | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

Dr. Bapat does not mention the problem of the native states, or the fact that less than 10 percent of the people are literate, according to latest statistics. Language differences (which he euphemistically terms "dialectical"), and rigid caste barriers will be removed, he says, in the future. "It is only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Counterpoint | 5/24/1930 | See Source »

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