Word: kao
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week from the Orient with its usual July load of tourists, plantation owners, white scientists, dark Oriental traders, the S. S. Tenyo Maru steamed through the Golden Gate. Watching the San Francisco skyline was a young Chinese woman, dressed in the smartest U. S. style?Mrs. Sui'e Ying Kao, wife of the Chinese Vice Consul at San Francisco. She was returning from a visit to her homeland. When the liner had docked she, a lady of some importance, requested courtesy-of-the-port, that her baggage might be passed and delivered at once. The Customs men demurred. She pointed...
Young Mrs. Kao, high born and college-bred, daughter of the Chinese Minister to Cuba, expressed polite surprise. The tin boxes, she explained, had been placed in her trunks by influential friends in China, to be carried as gifts to other influential friends in the U. S. Asked who these friends were, she refused to tell. She would be killed surely if she did, she said. She had no explanation at all about some documents which, found with the opium and translated, indicated that she was to have received $23,000 upon delivering the tins to the "influential friends...
Because the situation was delicate, Vice Consul Kao and his wife were not arrested for several days, sought temporary refuge in San Francisco's Chinatown. Then the Chinese Minister at Washington, Dr. C. C. Wu, announced Vice Consul Kao's suspension. The Kuomintang of America, branch of the potent political organization behind the Nanking government, demanded their recall to China for trial. The impression spread that certain death, from a headsman's sword cleaving into the back of her bent neck, awaited Mrs. Kao if she were deported. Although Minister Wu, taking pains to announce that decapitation was not China...
...Photophones. In January 1928, the Keith-Albee and Orpheum theatre circuits merged, the combination also acquiring control of F. B. O. Pictures Corp., cinema producer and distributor. In October 1928, the Keith-Albee-Orpheum combination sold control to Radio Corp. and Radio-Keith-Orpheum, a holding company, was formed. KAO lost money in 1928. The RKO management, with David Sarnoff as Board Chairman, showed an operating profit of $181,373 for the first quarter...
...development the Keith-Albee vaudeville enterprise was swinging in a great, open parabola. It had only theatres and actors. But it was not a closed corporate entity, such as is currently found most profitable. Then Keith-Albee merged with the Orpheum circuit of vaudeville-cinema houses. That made KAO, which soon had tight alliance with Pathe Exchange (cinema producers) very potent. The eccentric amusement curve was closing toward an ellipse. Joseph P. Kennedy (TIME, May 28) closed it by becoming K-A-O's chairman. He was already chairman of Film Booking Offices, cinema distributors and theatre managers. This...