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...behalf of China to arrange a non-aggression pact with Japan. T. V. Soong, former finance minister of China, now one of Chiang Kai-shek's advisers, when informed of the proposal repudiated his Government's representative in about the time it takes to say chicken chow mein. He snorted: "Our Ambassador in Japan is an innocuous old gentleman talking on general principles when thousands of Chinese lives are being lost every day at the hands of ruthless invaders...
...there. His weapon is a discovery made by a fellow prisoner (Henry B. Walthall) of a way to reduce people to one-sixth of their size. Heretofore the process, which has been used only for such playful purposes as reducing St. Bernard dogs to the size of Chow pups, has had the effect on humans of reducing their minds commensurately with their bodies, making the resultant peewees almost witless. The scientist eliminates this flaw in his discovery, and Lavond, masquerading as a dear old lady,* makes big ones into little ones in the basement of a Paris doll shop, reduces...
Died. John Stanger Heiss Oscar Asche, 64, author, producer, leading man of the historic musicomedy Chu Chin Chow; of a heart attack; in Marlow, England. Chu Chin Chow opened in London in 1916, ran straight through the War, did not close until 1921. Three million people saw the show, including thousands of Allied soldiers who made it a martial institution. For a consecutive run, its record of 2,238 performances is surpassed only by the Manhattan engagement of Abie's Irish Rose (2,532 performances). Two months ago Producer Asche, who made $1,000,000 from Chu Chin Chow...
...because the advent of the automobile made Manhattan "impossible." In Paris, she organized many a gala dinner which royalty attended, devoted much of her time to le phare de France, an institution for blind war veterans. Extremely fond of animals, her pet was a show chow, Chi-Chi. When she wrote its autobiography, the late Rudyard Kipling was moved to remark: "My, what an observing...
...mistake of its U. S. director, J. Walter Ruben, in his apparent supposition that lethargic pace was the proper cinema equivalent of Author Hergesheimer's peculiar prose style. As Taou Yuen, Anna May Wong, who last year appeared in an English screen version of Chu Chin Chow, gives a performance so admirable that it may serve to remind Hollywood producers that it is high time she returned for good...