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Liberal Without Sacrilege-Last spring came the moment for which old Saionji had been grooming his protege. The Cabinet of Premier General Senjuro Hayashi was forced out and thereupon the Last of the Genro produced from his ample kimono sleeve the "Liberal Prince" to be Premier (TIME, June...
...Pearl, whom he introduces as Virginia Lee, a cultured, stage-struck socialite, will back their company if she is given a bit part. Vehicle for the Broadway opening is The Mikado, with Danforth singing the lead, Frank Moulan the Lord High Executioner, and Irene Hervey, most fetching in a kimono, chorusing Three Little Maids from School with Vivian Hart and Carita Crawford. The finale is interrupted when conscience, stirred by the sound of approaching police sirens, impels Jimmie to reveal that the show has no backing and the house has been "papered" (packed free)-a confession which evokes unanimous demands...
Wrapping her kimono around her pink slip, Florence Sunderstrom, the blonde heroine, crossed her Dietrich-like legs and answered a question, "No, I don't mind Eddie's 'surprise attack'; it's a lot of fun." Billy Randolph, played by Eddie Philips, uses army tactics in making love to Florence...
Absolute low of the show were New Jersey's entries, except for an able seascape by John Marin. Proudly grey-haired Painter Henry R. MacGinnis had his photograph taken in front of his commonplace Silver Kimono with his model, Jane Erwin, and Governor Hoffman. There were also four sentimental landscapes suitable for calendars, an unbelievably bad poster pumpkin, an indigestible moon in a green sky and some portraits. Bleated New Jersey Art Critic and Columbia University Art Instructor Raymond O'Neill: "This show will make New Jersey appear to be painting in a corner away from the march...
Saionji's Ace. Against such a dire emergency, Prince Saionji has for many years considered that he had up his Genro kimono sleeve a particularly effective card. This trump is His Highness Prince Fumimaro Konoye, the most promising young aristocrat in Japan, sympathetic toward parliamentary government, yet popular with the Navy and head of Japan's great fighting Fujiwara Clan. Legend makes His Highness a direct descendant of the most exalted Lesser Deity who was in attendance on the Sun Goddess when she created the Earth and begat Japan's present Imperial Family to rule it. History...