Word: chinatown
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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...
...communication with the U. S.* From an A. T. & T. radio station at Dixon, Calif, calls will go direct from the U. S. to Shanghai removing the previous necessity of routing them through Japan. Switchboard work at the U. S. end will be done in the company's Chinatown office in San Francisco...
...Muralist Bernard Zakheim, they showed the development of modern medicine, from the ancient purifying brazier to the xray. Not far away San Francisco's best known sculptor, Beniamino Bufano, was putting the finishing touches to a 14-ft. statue of Dr. Sun Yatsen, to be erected in Chinatown. Both statue and murals will be paid for with Federal funds...
When the floor show is over "Chinatown Night" next week--the gentleman whose sole purpose in life is to eliminate those hardworking contestants is ushered to the microphone to the hisses and catcalls of the audience. Unless the booing is up to snuff he refuses to take over his duties. Then the "sprint" begins. There are only sixteen couples remaining from the sixty who began, and the gentleman brags that he is getting them out on an average of two a week. May the powers above bless him and have mercy on his soul in his noble endeavor...