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...Small World invites comparison with It Happened One Night it need concede priority only in the use of its general structure. Its acrid inconsequent mood is its own. Wendy Barrie's father, a King's Counsel named Jenkin, is a barrister in Hongkong where she was born. Her mother christened her Wendy. She naturally picked Barrie when she needed a stage name. She went to school in Switzerland and was having lunch in London's Savoy Grill with a friend when Alexander Korda saw her, offered her a screen test. Watching her shrewdly with his hat over...
...Hongkong, police raided the sideshow of Tin Tsoi, woman ventriloquist, who charged three cents (Hongkong) to let customers talk with her unborn child. They found Widow Tin Tsoi telling patrons that the child had often, during the ten years of her pregnancy, refused to come into the world, inviting them to ask it questions. She was sentenced to six weeks in jail...
...TIME, March 18). Last week the tubby but trig little advance agent for Japanese imperialism was back in Shanghai consuming highballs with correspondents and paying all the checks. Out over China's cables went his success story of delightful encounters with leading Southwest Chinese, such as Mr. Hu ("Hongkong Hu") Han-min, eminent apostle of the late, sainted Dr. Sun Yat-Sen "Father of the Chinese Revolution...
...other country such statements as General Doihara's would have forced leaders such as Hongkong Hu to confirm or deny that he had correctly unmasked their attitude. In China no amount of unmasking, denial or confirmation ever settles anything, and so far as Chinese were concerned last week, General Doihara's talk was just talk. In San Francisco indignant Chinese friends of Hongkong Hu announced off their own bats, without confirmation from him, that "Hu Han-min's policy has been and unalterably will be 'China for the Chinese, first and last...
Pleased with the new Japanese-Chinese bargain now under discussion, General Doihara beamed in Hongkong, "Our relations with China are much better." In Nanking, impatient for his big loan, Chinese Finance Minister Kung deplored the impossibility of screwing silver out of the Chinese people as President Roosevelt screwed gold out of the U. S. people, threatened to go through the motions of taking China off the silver standard and establishing a managed currency. Dryly commented the world's famed "Money Doctor," Princeton Professor Edwin W. Kemmerer, rehabilitator of a dozen currencies and an expert on China...