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...tall and graceful, and because her big eyes gave her a maturity beyond her years, she found work as an extra by the time she was 14, and played important roles opposite Lon Chaney and Douglas Fairbanks while still in her teens, and was a sensation in German and English films before...
...luminosity. But Wong was the No. 1 Chinese lady, from the teens to the 60s, and there was no No. 2. Against devastating odds, she made her name in silent films in the U.S., with Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Bagdad, and abroad, starring in the amazing Anglo-German Piccadilly. Like Greta Garbo, Wong developed a gestural language for silent film and attached it to her already formidable screen presence. When sound came in, she wanted to stick around...
...Dozens of silent stars failed in the talking pictures that went from novelty in 1927 to the norm by 1930. Wong had garnered raves for speaking German with a natural precision in her first talkie, Hai-Tang. Her West End stage debut in The Circle of Chalk, though, was calamitous. Critics derided her "Yankee squeak," and the show's producer, Basil Dean, blamed her for its early close. Apparently, she didn't always project for audiences to hear her, and when they did they were appalled by her flat California diction. Well, she was from California. Maybe she didn...
...single office dealing solely with international experiences: OIP covers study abroad, whereas work abroad falls under the joint jurisdiction of departments, area study centers and OCS. A student wishing to work in Germany, for instance, will be juggled between OCS, OIP, the Center for European Studies and the German Department. Furthermore, funding is only granted extremely late, frequently in April, so those denied grants must cancel their internship and scramble to find an affordable alternative. Since Harvard truly cares about “global competence,” it will hopefully soon desist from putting students through such a process...
...wheelchair and in need of ever more rest. Talk of retirement that surfaced three years ago has effectively been stifled, leaving Vatican observers with a nagging question: Who is really running the show at the Holy See? Rome's influential Cardinals no doubt are having their say. Conservative German stalwart Joseph Ratzinger who heads the office that oversees all moral and theological issues and Secretary of State Angelo Sodano whose role is traditionally that of a de facto Prime Minister are largely given free reign to run their respective dicasteries. Many insiders note that ultimately groundshifting decisions must...