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Doubtless The Bitter Tea of General Yen will distress cinemaddicts who cherish the illusion that under Tsar Hays the cinema is committed to upholding Occidental theories of right and wrong. Aside from being morally subversive and eloquently antiChristian, it is not an unusual, although it is an intelligent, production. It suffers from lethargic pace, a lack of action elsewhere than in highly atmospheric battle-scenes. Barbara Stanwyck is satisfactory as Megan Davis but the most noteworthy female member of the cast is Toshia Mori, a sloe-eyed Japanese girl whom Director Frank Capra discovered in a Los Angeles curio shop...
Tall, tense, loquacious Farmer Campbell, queried last week in Los Angeles by newshawks, seemed puzzled. "I have a very high regard for Mr. Stalin," said he. "I consider him a real leader, perhaps the only man who can bring Russia out of its distress and turmoil. There must be some misunderstanding...
Papal sorrows: church difficulties in Mexico, Russia, Spain (see p. 15); economic distress throughout the world; the deaths of Cardinals Piffl of Vienna and Van Rossum of Holland...
...repeat, impossible conditions," growled General Litzmann. ". . . Meanwhile the distress of the times has grown so keen that in Berlin 193 persons committed suicide in October!" Interrupted another Red, "Ja, 193 persons-but not one pensioned general...
...birth control methods. Gowned in a kimono of blue silk wound with an elaborate. flowered obi (sash) the Baroness said: "Birth control alone will not solve Japan's problems. They will not be met until the economic system is changed. . . . Birth control will lighten the burden of ignorance and distress...