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Coolies, soldiers, and hundreds of round-eyed little boys stood in the market place at Tsinanfu and marveled. Bent over a barrel was the Honorable Wu Cha-ding, Commissioner of the Wenchang Bureau of Public Safety. Standing over him was a strong-armed soldier with a broad wooden paddle in his hand who lustily belabored Mr. Wu's quivering bottom...
Hollywood is volatile, jealous and perhaps sinful. But it is intensely loyal to the little man whom it used to call Charlie before the wide world called him Chariot, Carlos, Cha-pu-rin and as many more variations as there are 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...
Decorated. Edward Nash Hurley, 65, Chicago financier, Commander of the Legion of'Honor, order of Ta Sho Cha Ho (China), Grand Officer Crown of Italy, by the Vatican; with the order of Knight...
This railway starts at sea level (port of Callao) and crosses the Andes reaching an elevation, near the station of Ticlio, of 15,665 feet. On a branch from this station of Ticlio to a mining camp (Moroco-cha), it scales even higher, or 15,865 feet above the sea. And this is all standard-gauge railroad with no rack and pinion. Now where is that puny little point in Colorado? . . . A. L. CONWELL...
...made them young again? Surely this was not a modern musical adventure, despite its stock of radio and crossword puzzle jests. It was, rather, a curio dug up from the old downtown days. It had a soldier named Bang Bang, an ingenue named Fli Wun, a prince named Cha Ming, bandits named Hi and Lo. It had a plot about a Chinese Princess who fell in love with a voice; the voice kidnaped her and turned out to be a prince. It had a very large chorus that shuffled about with very short steps. It had a scene...