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...almond-eyed Mussolini. Even this would not work unless he could find someone to take young Marshal Chang's place at Peiping to hold the north for him. For days he bargained frantically with three possible candidates: Ho Ying-chin. Minister of War in the Wang Cabinet; Han Fu-chu, War Lord of Shantung; old Marshal Wu Pei-fu, the Scholar War Lord. The three candidates remained coy, having discovered two highly objectionable tin cans attached to this offer: 1) the new lord of Peiping can expect no subsidy from the Nationalist government; 2) he will be expected...
Once again the helm of China's panicky Government was steadied last week by her "Scholar War Lord," the Great Marshal Wu Pei-fu...
...dignified Judge Pan Kuo-tsze of the District Court was a confirmed opium-smoker. Judge Pan's colleagues immediately indicted Commissioner Wu for slander and after deliberation sentenced him to be publicly spanked in the market place. Outraged Commissioner Wu appealed personally to the highest authority, General Han Fu-chu, Chairman and Pacification Commissioner of the Shantung Provincial Government. But General Han was a friend of Judge Pan. Not only did he approve the sentence but "as a mark of his personal displeasure" slapped Commissioner Wu once on the face. While Tsinanfu marveled, slanderous Commissioner Wu was then paddled...
Daughter of the Dragon (Paramount) shows the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu (Warner Oland) far less insidious than he seemed in the stories of Sax Rohmer, engaged in homicide on an ambitious scale but in a manner too placid to be awful. Brought to his deathbed early in the picture, he charges his daughter (Anna May Wong) to continue his program of extermination. This she attempts to do, in the case of a British aristocrat and his son, who falls in love with her. She is hindered by the ministrations of a Chinese detective, who loves her also but does...
...Ayscough is an author of considerable note, having written books entitled "A Chinese Mirror," Tu Fu," "The Autobiography of a Chinese Poet," and "The Autobiography of a Chinese Dog." They have been heralded as a notable contribution to Western understanding of Chinese literature and culture. She has also collaborated with Miss Amy Lowell. Mrs. Ayscough's original method of translation, her scholarship and lecturing ability make her a superb interpreter of Chinese thought...