Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxi-driver who had taken the third ransom note to "Jafsie" Condon and from Condon's own recollections of the intermediary "Johns," a Washington cartoonist was able to make for the Department of Justice sketches of the criminal's face: sharp nose, flat cheeks, small mouth, pointed chin...
...Chin Chow (Gaumont-British). In the last two years the cinema industry in Britain has expanded almost as rapidly as it did in the U. S. before Depression. Douglas Fairbanks (whose Private Life of Don Juan had its London première last month), Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Gregory Ratoff, are a few of the Hollywood celebrities who are making pictures in England. Last week John Barrymore signed a contract with London Film Productions, Ltd. to act in an adaptation of a Shakespeare play, directed by Alexander Korda (The Private Life of Henry VIII). Most potent of British producing companies. which...
...Manhattan from 1917 to 1919, is at least intelligible to U. S. cinemaddicts. Its actors muffle their accents, sing with no more affectation than U. S. musicomedy performers. Prepared without either the gross exaggerations of a DeMille or the onyx convolutions of a Busby Berkeley, Chu Chin Chow is elaborate without being absurd. It relates the story of Ali Baba (George Robey) and the 40 thieves, exhibits the misfortunes which overtake the head thief Abu Hasan (Fritz Kortner) when he inflicts unjust punishment on his favorite dancing girl (Anna May Wong). Interspersed with songs, dances, oriental feasts and samples...
...ashore to report that lives had been lost because of Captain Robert E. Carey's incompetence and delay. They also petitioned the line to be removed from his command. Sailing back to San Francisco, the line's headquarters, Captain Carey observed: "I took it on the chin here in New York, but they'll get theirs in 'Frisco...
Pondering these elevating precepts of the New Life Movement recently. General Ho Ying-chin, dignified chief of the Government's Military Affairs Commission at Peiping, asked himself what he and other high officers could do for China while simple soldiers were buttoning themselves up. Suddenly General Ho was struck by the great fact that China unquestionably has too many generals. In a passion of self-abnegation Full General Ho dispatched a petition to President Lin Sen at Nanking asking to be demoted to the rank of a mere Major General. "The rules governing promotion," darkly added Full General...