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...palace has other rooms for the parties Bao Dai dearly loves. To one such party lately went a pretty 18-year-old girl from French Cochin-China to the south. She was a commoner, daughter of a well-born Chinese ex-Governor and her name was Marie Nguyen Hu Hao. She, too, had been edu-cated in Europe, in a convent near Paris. She liked detective stories and jazz and was ready to try her hand at ping-pong...
...gave an elaborate show. He hao two assistants. His puppets were specially carved by Barna de Toth, and embraced such additional personages as Puss in Boots, Hop-O'-My-Thumb, Red Riding Hood, and some fearsome Calabrian brigands. After the trial the Government provided hot chocolate and cakes for the jury. Senators were comforted with the thought that the combined ages of M. Déscarthis and his young assistants did not total 60. The Guignol problem of the Luxembourg Gardens had probably been solved for another 30 years...
When Sun died (1925), Chiang Kai-shek became the outstanding Nationalist leader, though still little known in the Occident. He led the greatest conquering army which China hao known in the present century up from Canton (TIME, Sept. 6), capturing successively all the chief strongholds south of the middle Yangtze river, including the present Nationalist Capital, Hankow (TIME, Oct. 18). Thence he has proceeded to capture all the great cities south of the lower Yangtze, completing his conquest of the Southern half of China by taking Shanghai (TIME, March...
Finance: Li Su-hao...