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Under such circumstances a "realistic" opium policy, according to Minister Soong, cannot be one of prohibition. Consequently Chinese Treasury officials have been sent to Formosa to study Japan's opium system: restricted sales under Government monopoly. If shrewd Minister Soong does harness opium to his Treasury chariot, he may find a way to balance the Chinese budget for some time to come, may find opium an aid in standing off the U. S. silver producers who want to unload on China a silver loan (TIME, Jan. 19). Last week Senator Key Pittman of silver-surplussed Nevada announced in Washington that...
...masseur to ease limbs strained by his perilous riding, he cancelled a trip to the Grand National Steeplechase (see p. 24). Said he: "I feel that the mere sight of horses going over the jumps would hurt every bone in my body." Also last week, in Paris, France's "Chariot" was decorated with the ribbon of Knight of the French Legion of Honor...
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...
When he comes to himself he is in ancient Rome, having just cracked up in a chariot race. Except that he finds himself talking Latin, that his name is Lucius instead of Luke, everything is exactly the same. The Fabers have the same position in Rome as in Rivertown, the same conservative point of view, the same worries and troubles with labor agitators. As in real life, Lucius finds the issue confused for him by falling in love with Marcia a rabid Red. When she is killed in his arms the shock brings him back to Rivertown again...
...like better than anything she has written since. It ended: "And when she came around the corner, what do you think she saw? She saw the Fairy Queen and Queen Victoria sitting on a toadstool." Sylvia Thompson has also written: The Hounds of Spring, The Battle of the Horizons, Chariot Wheels...