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...Ladies & Gentlemen, this is the Reverend Satchelmouth Armstrong. . . ." He gets his head up to an amplifier. His June 13, 1932 natural voice is almost whisper-small. "Chinatown, My Chinatown, Chinatown, Chinatown. . . ." He rarely has more than a rough idea of the words. "All right, boys, I'll take the next, five bars." He throws back his head, raises his trumpet, bleats noisily but marvelously. He has struck 200 high C's in succession, ended on high F. He slides all around a tune as easily as if he were doing it on a saxophone. He triple-tongues...
...Edward G. Robinson operating a machine gun in Chicago, a distillery in Manhattan or a poker game in a Florida casino. Actually, however, the countenance of Edward G. Robinson is less wicked than Mongolian. Shrewdly cast in this old (David Belasco-Achmed Abdullah) melodrama of San Francisco's Chinatown, he needs no make-up to assure you that he is the heathen executioner of the Lem Sing Tong...
...years ago the CRIMSON had a picture of me which I liked a great deal but after it had appeared once some scoundrel from Chinatown came in and claimed it as a portrait of his uncle. The CRIMSON rather than doubt my parentage and ancestry, gave him the picture...
Neither ascetic nor erudite was Professor Lee's father, sinister "Old Tom" Lee, chief On Leong Tongsman and redoubtable "Mayor of Chinatown." Old Tom's wife was white. He shielded her and little Frank whom she reared an upright Baptist. Opium dens, eerie tunnels under Mott Street and stranglings in the dark are no childhood memories of Professor Lee, whose features and color resemble his mother...
...Chinatown's Lee. Unlucky Dr. C. T. Wang who was beaten, stabbed and mauled by patriotic students (TIME, Oct. 5). because as Nanking's Foreign Minister "his policy toward Japan was not positive enough," recovered partly from his wounds last week. Thrice stabbed, he worried most about his badly beaten knees. Doctors said that if he walks again he will probably limp. Temporarily Dr. Wang was replaced in Nanking's Cabinet by a Chinese born in Manhattan's famed Chinatown, ascetic, erudite Professor Frank...