Word: hued
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although a number of orientals representing many of the best laundries in Cambridge were reluctantly brought to the CRIMSON Building yesterday by persons hopeful of winning the reward offered for the discovery of Dr. Hu Flung Huey, no actual information as to the whereabouts if the CRIMSON'S renowned football score prognosticator was uncovered...
...remaining $5,000 landed on: the other edge of the continent at the University of Oregon where similar, lectures will be given by Professor W. R. B. Willcox and Dr. Kiang Kang Hu of the Congressional Library, Washington, D. C. Since Oregon has recently been made recipient of the immensely valuable Murray Warner collection of Oriental art, this year's lectures will be chiefly devoted to the art and architecture of China and Japan...
Louisville, Kentucky, May 15.--The Louisville police tonight report the arrest of a short and stocky Oriental who answers to the name of Dr. Hu Flung Huey and who claims to be in the employ of the "Harvard Crimson." Dr. Huey was apprehended by jockeys and trainers when he was seen slinking around the paddocks of the famous Churchill Downs where the Kentucky Derby will be run off on Saturday...
...speech singing, gymnastics and dancing. Fearsome, comic masks and face-painting, costumes, and a whole intricate play of gesture have complex, traditional significances (stooping, for instance, means passing under a lintel, i. e., entering another house). The singing is accompanied by one musician producing whining, squealing sounds on the Hu-ch'in (bamboo bow-and-string instrument), by others tapping wood blocks, striking cymbals, plunking rudimentary banjos. Their approaches to harmony are painful to western ears; their rhythms are often complex syncopations, recognizable by jazz enthusiasts...
...fang is 32. At the age of seven he had mastered Chinese music, studying with his uncle Yu-ti'en, famed musician and virtuoso on the stringed hu-k'in. When he was twelve, Mei Lan-fang, grandson of a great actor of the '50s, made his own debut as a tan (female impersonator). The impersonation of women is perhaps the greatest branch of Chinese acting, for women are not permitted on the stage.* Mei Lan-fang plays women's rôles entirely. He is president of Peiping's Actors' Association and his superiority in his calling is unquestioned...