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...Vladivostok. This outpost of the Russian Empire he proclaimed -quite in the manner of Edward of Wales today-must be linked by rail with St. Petersburg. Preferably the line should run direct, cutting from Vladivostok straight across North Manchuria, then Chinese. Five years later China's wicked old Empress Dowager sent to Nicholas II's coronation an ancient Chinese with a world-great name and an itching palm, the Viceroy Li Hung-chang...
...instigators of assassination, Priest Inouye paid stirring tribute to the Divine Emperor for whose greater glory the Blood Brotherhood struck. "The final decision on everything." he cried, "should be made by the Emperor."One decision unhappy Emperor Hirohito cannot make. The sex of his children continues obstinately female. Empress Nagako has been delivered of four girls and last week the court physicians pronounced her again with child. From now until next January, when her accouchement is expected, the worried Son of Heaven will be busy every day with tedious religious services supposed to promote the production...
Citizens of the Western world who think of Japanese civilization as dating from Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858) would change their minds after reading Lady Murasaki's The Tale of Genji. Written some time ago (1001-15) by a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Akiko, it has been a widely-known classic in Japan since 1022. When British Scholar Arthur David Waley brought out the first volume of his translation (1925), critics tumbled over themselves to get within wreath-throwing distance. The Tale of Genji was compared to Proust, Jane Austen. Boccaccio. Shakespeare. Its translator calls...
...alone, hurries downstairs where her extremely civil en gineer is conveniently waiting. The struggle between Vicki Meredith and her lower self would have been more engrossing if there had been more doubt about the outcome. Daughter of Countess Zanordi-Landi, who said her mother was Austria-Hungary's Empress Elizabeth, Actress Landi says: "I don't care to talk about my ancestry because that is of the past." But her past (which includes English private tutors, a stage debut with an Oxford repertory company, authorship of three published novels) asserts itself in the Landi presence. Like Ruth Chatterton...
...match her there is a new John Barrymore, emerging from the mists of reserve and whimsy felt rather than seen in "Rasputin and the Empress," and in "Grand Hotel." The slow tempo of these parts probably derives from that streak in Barrymore which made an unduly ruminative Hamlet in the old days, while these dashing airs, this hereditarial madness of Hapsburgs and Barrymores recalls Prince Hal of a past decade. In the role of a self-infoxteated. Vienna-crazed Hapsburg Grand Duke, the last of those emotional extroverts known as Prince Charmings, John Barrymore makes Mr. Lunt's "Prince Rudolph...