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Sixty thousand men & women labored through a cold winter's day in Britain last week. Seven thousand R.A.F. men listened to briefings. Then from airdromes all over England, 1,000 monster Lan-casters and Halifaxes sped for Berlin in their first big mission in 15 days...
Lassie is the Mei Lan-fang of dog actors. She is a he. The name used to be Pal. Pal was born the runt of his litter. For a while, Trainer Rudd Weatherwax, who readies quite a few dogs and cats for the screen, had given Pal up as histrionically hopeless. But when M.G.M. saw the first rushes for Lassie, they immediately upped Pal's salary from $90 to $250 per week. Even Pal's stand-in got $100 a week...
Reported Dead. Mei Lan-fang, 49, great Chinese tan (actress); of poison; in Shanghai. Although Mei's mastery of the masks, makeup, swords and fans of plot-bare, nuance-encrusted Chinese plays mystified Manhattan theatergoers in 1930, he was the biggest box-office name in China and long top-ranking tan (father of two sons, he always played feminine roles). Emperor Hsuan-tung confirmed his title, "Foremost of the Pear Orchard" -Chinese equivalent of an "Oscar...
Conway B. Sonne, Logan, Ut., Waine W. Suojanen, Ludlow, Vt., Charles F. Terrell, Hutchinson, Kans, Harold P. Thomson, Jr., Cavalier, N. Dak., Thomas J. Veldon, Hoboken, N. J., Charles W. Whalen, Jr., Dayton, Ohio, Marion N. Williamson, Jr., Rochello, Tex., lan S. Wishart, Berkeley, Calif, James B. Wood. Terre Haute...
...print them identically I would read them and summarize them." His paraphrasing technique was simple: "What the [Chicago] Tribune generally reports in a dignified way, the X-Ray 'slams 'em out' in old plant, barn lot, hill billy or whatever you want to call it lan guage." An ex-serviceman, he deeply re sented the Government's slur on his patriotism. ''Give me an airplane loaded with bombs." he challenged, "and I'll fly over Tokyo and set that Sun that is trying to rise tomorrow." (Editor Asher admits that he cannot...