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With the necessary passports secured, money telegraphed ahead to post offices of the larger western cities, and with a letter to General Wu Pei Fu safely stowed in the dispatch box, the expedition left Pekin in August. It went to Cheng Chow on the Pekin-Hankow railroad, then west to the end of the railroad that will some day connect the coast with the western provinces...
...boiled to the bone in the cinema. There is a desert, a strong husband, a capturing villain and a subtitle that reads: "You bought me with a handful of nuggets, and then you drove me before you across the desert like a beast." This from the play. Chu Chin Chow. Morris Gest delivered this spectacle several years ago. London luxuriated in it for endless performances. It was a big sheik adventure with lots of girls and a minor supply of costumes. The picturesque Oriental attributes of the story-caves and palaces and deserts-are naturally big medicine for the cinema...
...further swear that No. 12 S. Orange St. is occupied only by Pung Chow, a Chinese laundryman...
...ignorant immigrant from Russia. From odd jobs in the streets of Boston, he became an attache in the Theatre. He has risen through a series of phenomenal coups to the position of dictator of theatrical spectacle in America. After a number of staggeringly magnificent musical extravaganzas (Aphrodite, Chu Chin Chow, etc.) he introduced the Chauve Souris, the Moscow Art Company, Duse, The Miracle. He has the combined temperaments of the no-limit poker player and P. T. Barnum, plus dominating artistic instinct. He has become thereby a unique figure in a world where eccentricity is the primary requirement...
John Gay's The Beggar's Opera closed in London. It opened just three years and seven months ago and had a run of 1,463 consecutive performances. This record has been eclipsed only twice, by Chu Chin Chow and Charley's Aunt. There were days, however, when The Beggar's Opera held the endurance record from all comers. When it originally opened in London in the 1700's it had the longest run that any play had had until that time-50 consecutive evenings, if memory serves. It was said at the time that...