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...poetry on the co-prosperity sphere. In came popular music (current hit: a romantic tune, Song of the Apple), comedy shows and precisely timed modern, democratic plays (John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln). The most popular storyteller, sad-faced, bowlegged Musei, dropped the tale of Sugato Sanshiro, the legendary judo champ, and picked up the Arabian Nights, Aesop's Fables, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson. He even did a five-night version of Gone With the Wind...
...scrapping of judo classes and the adoption of a daily "apparatus and tumbling" practice are the only changes in opportunities, which include basketball, boxing, wrestling, swimming, and conditioning. The same system of checking-in for credit will be retained. New Freshmen who did not pass the physical efficiency tests (65 or over) will, as usual, be required to sign up for at least six weeks of special exercise classes...
Other athletics to be held in the Indoor Athletic Building are: wrestling, at 4 o'clock, Monday through Friday; judo, at 11:15, 12:15, and 3:45 o'clock, Monday through Friday; special exercises at 2, 3, and 4 o'clock, Monday through Friday; faculty exercise class on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5 o'clock; swimming at 11:15, 12:15, and 2:15 o'clock daily...
...Rigorous physical conditioning of females, together with practice in the art of judo and in the use of firearms, might go far to restore to the family an equilibrium of parental control...
...romantic acquaintance of a half-Chinese beauty (Sylvia Sidney) whose access to high places stirs his suspicions; unmasks the crookery of a fellow-journalist (Rhys Williams); helps drive Tanaka to harakiri. For comic relief he makes a monkey, again & again, out of his feckless shadower (Leonard Strong). He uses judo, to thrilling and protracted effect, to chop down huge, shaven-pated Heavy Jack Halloran. Finally, in front of the U.S. Embassy one night, he confronts what looks like the entire secret police force of Japan. His tag line, spat at an oleaginous police chief (Marvin Mueller...