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...cruiser Hai Chi ("Flag of the Sea") earned in 1911 the distinction of being the first Chinese war boat ever to visit the West when she steamed as near as possible to the Coronation of King George V, discharged a cargo of Chinese emissaries in gorgeous silken robes. Built in 1897 the Hai Chi and the equally venerable Hai Shen ("Pearl of the Sea") were still listed last week as the only cruisers in China's Northeastern Squadron. When some weeks ago their commanders, quarreled with sedentary Admiral Shen Hung-lieh, Mayor of Tsingtao, he could do nothing...
...while he was still Tsarevich, young Nicholas sailed with a gorgeous retinue into dazzled Vladivostok. This outpost of the Russian Empire he proclaimed -quite in the manner of Edward of Wales today-must be linked by rail with St. Petersburg. Preferably the line should run direct, cutting from Vladivostok straight across North Manchuria, then Chinese. Five years later China's wicked old Empress Dowager sent to Nicholas II's coronation an ancient Chinese with a world-great name and an itching palm, the Viceroy Li Hung-chang...
...tugging and straining at its guys. A trapeze was rigged below the balloon's mouth, and just above the trapeze was a platform holding an automatic cinema run by batteries. Out from the little crowd stepped a handsome young man, shedding his cloak with a nourish to reveal gorgeous white silk tights, glittering with spangles. He was Louis ("King Louie") Bonette, junior member of Bonette Bros., daredevil aerialists. Daredevil Bonette perched himself on the trapeze, looked to his parachute, waved a nonchalant signal, and sailed off skyward in the hot air balloon with the camera clicking down...
...behind her, as fragile as a mist, enmeshing her tall figure, concealing her face, and, in its upturned brim that circled her shapely head, forming the semblance of a halo, that gave her the air of one of the saints or angels that, in color, looked down from the gorgeous memorial windows on every hand. . . ." Actually the two-and-one-half columns showed a degree of restraint. Miss Devereux has been known to devote four columns to a wedding or ball, 16 columns to a day's social news. To her, debutantes are "rosebuds," a dining table...
...choice snakes, which were not stolen from the Lowell House dance two weeks ago, may still be obtained by applying to A. W. Todd '35, Lowell P-32. They are of gorgeous colors: reds, blues, oranges and violets, and cost but $.50. There are also some knotted and twisted lamp posts which make attractive decorations. They cost $1. At the recent House elections, E. K. Salls '34, Todd, and A. D. Cadman '35 were elected to the House Committee...