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Shanghai Movie Producer Wu Hsin-tsai had a brilliant idea. He would produce a comedy about barbers; Shanghai's 50,000 barbers would flock to it; they would talk about it in their barbershops. If each mentioned it to ten customers, box-office returns at $10,000 CN per seat (about 20? U.S.) would be incalculable...
...invited to see Wu's Chia Feng Hsu Huang (The False Male Phoenix and the Counterfeit Female Phoenix) when it was previewed. To play the lead, Cambridge-educated Director Huang Zo-lin had engaged slinky Li Lihua, one of China's leading actresses, who gets $70 million CN a picture (U.S. $1,400). Li Lihua's role was that of a widow, down to her last dress. She advertises for a husband and gives the impression that she is an heiress. The villain, a wealthy Chinese, reads the ad while in a barber's chair. Fearing...
...paid. . . . 'Constructing fences payment' is a polite term for kidnaping for ransom. If a peasant is unlucky, the Fire Society can easily arrest him on a charge of 'collaborating with bandits.' If he is clever and rich enough to send in some $200,000 CN or $300,000 CN, he becomes a 'repented' good citizen. Otherwise, his charge will change from collaboration to 'being a bandit'-and the sentence is death...
Seven hundred howling university students swarmed through Nanking Government offices last week. They wanted the monthly food subsidy for students (now $48,000 CN, or about two black-market U.S. dollars) doubled to meet still-rising inflation. When officials said "No chance," they shouted back coarsely: "Where has the money gone? How much do you spend to eat?" They marched into a Government mess hall, ate the lunches laid out for the Cabinet and staff, called for more...
...teachers get CN $185,000 per month (about $15), so we are hardly able to live. ... I am unwilling to part from the Review, and I hope ... I may soon see it again. When? . . . Only when the terrible inflation stops, and there is an end to this pitiless civil war. Be this true...