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. . . The scribe who pounds out the ironic, smile-provoking reviews of the celluloid strips tripped a bit in his discussion of that stupendous inanity billed as She [TIME, July 22]. I fidgeted through one showing of this insult to my imagination, but was attentive enough to notice that the gentleman...
Central, prosperous Hankow, a teeming city (pop. 1,500,000) sometimes called "the Chicago of China," cowered in collective panic as most of the subsidiary dike systems were swept away and the great Chang-kung Dike built of cement under foreign supervision in 1931 held precariously. Amphibian planes reconnoitering above...
In spite of the fact that the Asiatic Fleet makes an annual courtesy call on some Japanese city every year, U. S. pacifists still retained their gloomy forebodings, recalled that the Maine's ill-fated "courtesy call" at Havana in 1898 precipitated the Spanish War.
More through circumstance than anything else, Mr. Sheean early acquired a reputation as a dare-devil newshawk, in the best Floyd Gibbons manner. He was in Morocco during the uprisings of the 1920's, and managed several times to slip through the frontier between the French and the native troops...
The arrival of the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York for its one week stay in Boston at the Opera House has been announced for Monday, April 1. Wagner's "Die Walkure" is the opening presentation, and contains a remarkable cast. Lotte Lehmann is to sing the part of Sieglinde...