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...right shade for her Indian role. From India she had returned with twelve saris (wraparound Hindu dresses), six of which Dressmaker Valentina wrapped into costumes for Lakmé. Sharing Lily's backstage dressing room were three long-haired Tibetan dogs named Wah-ping, Shun-lo and Gobi (who recently made an appearance with Lotte Lehmann in a San Francisco performance of Der Rosenkavalier). Pons was not disturbed when critics panned Lakmé. Said she: "Is bad taste to beat Lakmé. If I sing Lakmé . . . the public is crazy to hear me. Is more a social night...
...spit on Great Wall of China a multi-hued rainbow rises above Gobi Desert...
...direct Chinese Eastern Railway through conquered Manchuria to Vladivostok, the Trans-Siberian has been the U.S.S.R.'s only land link with her Pacific port. And the Trans-Siberian is perilously open to attack: by land and air from northwestern Manchukuo, by land across the wide but easily passable Gobi (which, for all its fearsome reputation, is more like Nebraska and the Dakotas than the Sahara). An alternate rail line, several hundred miles inside the Russian border, is far from completion. Itagaki's invaders, attacking the Trans-Siberian, will also be assaulting Russian Asia's key cities: Chita...
...Genghis Khan, the Mongols of northern China have been a proud, fierce people. They have fought Chinese and Japanese with equal stubbornness. Just as stubbornly they have fought among themselves. Outer Mongolia fell under Soviet influence; then Inner Mongolia, stretching north from China's Great Wall to the Gobi, became the Japanese puppet state of Meng-Chiang...
Sinkiang is cut and laced by towering mountains. One of the oldest traditional ways out is the flat, salty waste of the Gobi Desert. This way the great caravan of Kazaks started. There were 20,000 people, with huge herds of sheep, camels and squat Mongolian ponies...