Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start with a riot. The excuse was a series of anti-Japanese editorials in the Chinese Republican Daily News, and the tousling of five Japanese monks by a gang of coolies. Promptly a group of Japanese naval officers called on the editor in his office in the International Settlement, gave him 24 hours to print an apology "on pain of adopting suitable measures." The monks were avenged by a lone Japanese who attacked a Chinese towel factory single-handed in the middle of the night. He flung blazing newspapers into the weaving room. Other Japanese attacked policemen attempting to summon...
With meticulous care the archeologist's pick & shovel gang cleared the entrance to another old tomb. Here, atop Monte Alban which overhangs the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca, might be some treasure which the Spanish Conquistadores had missed. Monte Alban had been a fortress of the anciently rich and powerful Mixtecs, or Cloud People. Within the walls they had built their temples and palaces. Here too were tombs of the Caciques, feudal nobles. The hilltop now is all tumbled debris. Professor Alfonso Caso, archeologist of the National Museum of Mexico, has had a gang clearing buried walls, sifting dirt...
...facile playwrighting (by Laurence Gross & Edwards Childs Carpenter), skilled and humorous direction (by Frank Craven) and notably high high-comedy acting (by little Ernest Truex). A sort of mystery play to end all mystery plays, it relates the adventures of a detective fictioneer who unexpectedly becomes embroiled with a gang of criminals. A fabricator of "more drugs for the drug stores," Actor Truex boasts to his burly acquaintances that he knows how to commit the perfect crime. His method is to secrete poison in the victim's toothpaste. Thereupon the criminals make Mr. Truex test his notion on a stool...
Next victim is to be a prominent citizen who is conducting a civic investigation. The gang put it squarely up to the perfect murderer: either the investigator's life or his own. When Mr. Truex substitutes powdered sugar for the cyanide things begin to look very dark for him indeed. He saves himself and his fiancee by the neatest trick of the melodramatic season. Whistling In The Dark is not a candidate for the Pulitzer Prize, but it has wit, freshness...
...pleased by his intuitive appreciation. Saturated in the cinema, Lubitsch diverts himself, when not making real pictures, by making a cast out of his friends, his servants, the people who pass him on the street. "Ach," he says, "you are a crook. No, you are head of a gang of blackmailers. . . . You know everything, everybody." Pleased at his prowess in such conceits, he assumes a wise expression and rolls his eyes ? the cameras for an endless hypothetical scenario...