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...Nearly half a century ago a little boy was walking with his father and mother in a park of a city in southern France. Toward them came a distinguished-looking elderly couple-Don Pedro the Second* and his Empress. That occasion was my first introduction to Brazil...
...with other men, but on important Hollywood occasions von Sternberg was still her escort. It was at his counsel that she let Mamoulian direct her in Song of Songs. The picture was not wholly a success. After this partial failure Dietrich returned to von Sternberg. They made The Scarlet Empress, based on the life of Catherine of Russia. It was a picture characterized by a peculiar violence of background and a remarkable tedium of pace. By making a much better picture on the same subject, Elisabeth Bergner rubbed the first bloom off the von Sternberg-Dietrich prestige. Still there...
...inevitable reaction of the Chinese people against the humiliations imposed by Japan, has worked out so nicely that discerning Frank Hedges, Far-Easter for the Washington Post, recently was able to report that Dictator Chiang now heads "the strongest Central Government in that country since the death of the Empress Dowager, Tzu Hsi"*and has "succeeded in uniting the Chinese people in a way that has not been known for centuries." Japanese suspicions of China are always dire and last week Tokyo commentators opined that Dictator Chiang can only be taking his present strong line if he has recently secured...
...racketeers, gasoline-wasters and coffee-addicts." *See the ablest recent Far East volume, Can China Survive?, by New York Times correspondents Hallett Abend & Anthony J. Billingham (Ives Washburn, Inc. New York, $3). *Died 1908. Her Majesty has just been made the subject of a brilliant biography, The Last Empress by His Excellency Daniele Vare who was then an Italian legation official at Peking (Doubleday, Doran, $3). *Shantung's previous satrap "The Monster," the late notorious General Chang Tsung-chang, overtaxed and robbed the province into starvation. He escaped to Japan with a fortune of millions, murdered a Chinese prince...
...from Hsinking, the Manchukuan capital, to inspect 100 "most beautiful and healthy girls between the ages of 15 and 20," who had been assembled by Chinese marriage brokers of renown and unblemished reputation. The envoy was performing this agreeable duty because the Emperor, whose present union with the beautiful Empress Peng Chi has not been blessed, is looking for one or more sturdy concubines to provide him with heirs...