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...centuries ago, long after the Mongols were driven out, Peking was rebuilt. Ming Emperor Yung Lo followed his astrologer's plan to make the city a geomantic portrait of No Cha, a three-headed monster with six arms. Its heads became the main gate, its intestine an open gutter and its navel a well. When Yung Lo had finished, Peking was a series of walled cities within cities, like a Chinese puzzle, box within...
...libel, United Feature Syndicate's Columnist Inez Robb sounded a hearty bravo. Wrote Newshen Robb: "Miss Duke has just struck a blow for liberty, freedom and decency . . . against the most putrid of the so-called 'exposé' magazines now defiling newsstands. Let us hope that . . . the gutter journalists responsible draw a stiff jail or penitentiary sentence...
...adaptation of the Bret Harte short story. Franchot Tone and Teresa Wright starred in this tale of a hard-drinking newspaper editor and a high-minded Philadelphia schoolmarm who meet in a frontier town in 1885. The editor has a carefree habit of lying around drunk in the gutter a good bit of the time, and the schoolmarm, a fairly stuffy type, is tempted to go back to Philadelphia, especially when she is told that her editor friend has fathered an illegitimate child. The happy ending-which came as a mild shock to viewers who have been brought...
...Communists. Our Nationalist garrison leaned forward impassively on their weapons, expecting an infantry attack. 'We are completely encircled.' a report came through to us. Outside I could see a number of grotesquely related things: fire leaping from densely packed wooden shacks; a rat scurrying down a gutter to escape; refugees huddled or fleeing, silhouetted against the red backdrop, beneath the city-wide canopy of smoke. Here and there on the sidewalk lay pairs of wooden clogs; their owners had jumped out of them so they could flee more quickly, barefoot, to shelter...
Lights does more deep and tender credit to the human race than this one. Like a penny in the gutter, a heart catches the light. It isn't much, and there are millions like it, but it's coin of the realm, and only a proud child, no matter what his age, will pass...