Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MURDER UP MY SLEEVE-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). One death, by a dart from a Chinese sleeve gun, with suspects that include members of San Francisco's social set, Chinatown characters, and the detective himself (who is Terry Clane, successor to Author Gardner's famed Perry Mason). First rate...
...While hordes of moppets in San Francisco's Chinatown did a thriving business shining shoes, promising to turn over their nickels to the China war relief fund, their elders gathered in St. Mary's Square to gaze at a massive, glittering simulacrum of Dr. Sun Yatsen, the Christian scholar and republican hero who ended Manchu rule in China in 1912. Nearly 20 feet tall on its pedestal, the figure has head, hands and feet of red granite, body of stainless steel, cold-hammered to the shape of a military tunic and mandarin's skirt. Materials were provided...
...Manhattan's Chinatown, strings of pasted together dollar bills were dramatically swallowed by a cavorting paper dragon on Double-Ten, and Chinese Ambassador to Washington Dr. C. T. Wang, whose Chinese Embassy Relief Fund at 40 Wall Street handles contributions, was able to announce that $2,000,000 has already been raised among Chinese in the U. S., remitted to China...
Young Lee--A bit of Chinatown in our midst. Good food--American and Chinese. Buy a meal ticket...
...Francisco earthquake, as all cinemaddicts have long been well aware, was not a geological fault but rather certain unfortunate conditions in the city's night life. Before the Legion of Decency started, there was generally supposed to be white slavery, opium and hatchet-work in Chinatown. San Francisco, bringing the earthquake up to date, makes it plain that its real cause lay in the fact that Clark Gable did not say his prayers at night. Gable is Blackie Norton, owner of a notorious café, and Miss MacDonald is his No. 1 chanteuse. Father Tim (Spencer Tracy) struggles...