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...Jade, played by Katherine Hopburn, symbolizes the new era. Miss Hepburn is aincere and convincing and proves, that she can handle a dramatic part with the same effectiveness as a comedy role, while Walior Huston lends strength and dignity to the part of the head of the family. Akim Tamiroff as the Chinese Quisling is perhaps the only one not well cast...
...Margaret Chung (see cut), matriarch and "mother" to some 700 Allied pilots who wear the jade Buddha tiepins of the Organization of Bastards (because they are not her legitimate sons), to 400 Kiwis-good Bastard material, but non-flyers-(named after the kiwi, a bird which cannot fly), to 300-odd Golden Dolphins, a society of submariners, first became a "mother" to seven American aviators who tried to volunteer for service with the Chinese Air Force in 1931. A top-notch San Francisco surgeon, she has flown thousands of miles to give her medical skill to her "sons," makes...
...lush décors ("The bathroom was a miracle of coral, blue, and jade green, with a tub of flush-pink marble. There was also an open fireplace and a small concealed refrigerator for keeping cold her lotions and the Guinness's Stout. . . . Mirrored closets, glass-enclosed shower, a couple of low overstuffed slipper chairs in coral satin, two washbasins, and a telephone. . . . Her husband's eyes searched the magnificence. 'Where...
...world is so crowded with historic ruins, sterile and clean beneath the desert dust. Through oases in Turkestan, over one of the master roads of history, wound caravans and pack trains that linked the West and East. To Europe went silks from the Orient; to China came furs, jade and treasured goods from lands beyond the Wall. From these lands burst out great nomad hordes (Huns, Mongols, Turks) that time & again had devastated both civilized Europe and the capitals of China...
...single sheet of white paper inscribed with the oath of the Presidency. The Generalissimo, in full-dress uniform, was taut, expectant; his decorations gleamed and his immaculate white gloves moved restlessly. Kuomintang Elder Wu Chih-hui, scholar and veteran of 1911, solemnly handed the new President the great jade seal, wrapped in red silk, and Chiang was ready to deliver his Double Ten address, doing double duty as his inaugural...