Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult transition from boards to celluloid has left O'Neill's "Emperor Jones" undamaged. The script of the short drama is used without change, with only a little prefatory matter added as a sop to Moronia. Since the additions are in the style of the original tragedy, since O'Neill's play as it stood opened too directly in medias res, and since the emendations take advantage of the wider possibilities of the camera, the changes are an improvement on the legitimate play. Photography and direction, and excellent suporting cast and good music aid Paul Robeson's magnificent interpretation...
...passenger ship), stripped of her armament, but with the Imperial Standard (a gold chrysanthemum on a scarlet field) floating from her truck. Every man on every ship stood rigid at attention, for on the Hiyei's bridge was a tiny sacred figure, the owl-eyed Son of Heaven, Emperor Hirohito...
Thus ended Japan's first massed naval maneuvers in three years. The Emperors of Japan have reviewed their navies only 16 times. In 1890, first review to attract Western attention, the Emperor of Japan had 32,328 tons of warships, all built abroad. Last week the Emperor's fleet was 26 times as great, and nearly every ton of it built in Japanese yards. Since the last maneuvers three years ago, the sea fleet has increased 20%, naval aircraft...
...Nations and has declined to give up since she resigned from the League (TIME, April 3). Solving this problem took nearly a month, cost the hard-pressed Japanese Treasury some $2,700,000 and employed almost every ship, almost every station in the Japanese navy. For several days the Emperor himself commanded the defense forces. What the results of the maneuvers were Japanese referees would not say. They admitted that five men were killed, six injured and one seaplane lost. Pressed for details they would say only that several men were washed overboard by big waves...
...exports, and 40% of Japan's farmers raise silkworms. Therefore Mr. Imai was long ago elected to the Japanese parliament as representative of the silk industry. A few years ago he felt that it was time for him to retire, but when word of his intention reached the Emperor, Mr. Imai was promptly made a member of the house of peers (senator) for life...