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...years that Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado has been around, the Japanese had never once performed it. Obviously Pish-Tush's lines ridiculed the Emperor...
Nevertheless, in the grey, red-&-gold Burg chapel, where once the Emperor followed Mass, Viennese still congregate every Sunday, and they are joined-in cosmopolitan peace-by some occupation officers who have a taste for prayer and music. There, violins and the sweet young voices of the Sängerknaben still make the most beautiful music in the honor of God that is made anywhere...
...Emperor Meiji's classic Shinto ghost would toss about in dismay inside the quiet Meiji Shrine, if it knew what was happening at the Diet building a few miles away. Though some might say that Japanese politics there were being run according to the familiar prewar stage directions, there were certainly unexpected faces in several of the leading roles. Tetsu Katayama, the new Socialist Premier, is the Presbyterian grandson of a Shinto priest. Jiichiro Matsumoto, vice chairman of the Diet's upper house, is one of Japan's Eta* "untouchables." The new Cabinet Secretary, smart Socialist Strategist...
Advice to the Victim. On the way to Japan, on the U.S. Education Mission, Stoddard kept insisting to his colleagues that the Emperor ought to be hanged or at least jailed. But in Tokyo, he found himself recommending to his unsuspecting "victim" the right U.S. woman tutor (Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining) for the Crown Prince. And he also helped draft democratic reforms for Japanese education: popularly elected school boards, a simplified alphabet,wider public schooling...
...Forty-six-year-old Author Caldwell's life story is as extraordinary as Frank's and much more convincing. At nine, soon after her arrival in the tough world of North America, she wrote her first novel-a story of the persecution of the Christians by the Emperor Nero. By twelve, she had done a novel about the French Revolution. She also attended grade school. But father Arthur Caldwell, who was a commercial artist, disapproved of pampering and educating women. When his daughter was 15 and had just finished a biography of Christ, he put her to work...