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...pages for John Wesley Beaven, one of the nicest, cleanest, bravest medical students ever to flay a corpse, to convince the Professor that doctors must be gentle as well as skillful. John Wesley's own life is leavened by what Author Douglas calls his "process of orientation" to Lan Ying ("orchid"), an American girl brought up as a Chinese...
...presenting triumphantly to his general what he thinks are the missing diamonds, thrice consigned to a firing squad for his ineptitude; Borrah Minnevitch and his gang of lunatic harmonica players going musically crazy; the captain of a British freighter stopped and searched at sea, proclaiming his outraged feelings in lan guage as colorful and crossed-up as the Union Jack...
...Lung. He returns to the country. He buys the Great House. He cuts off his queue in the western fashion. He dons silk. He forgets the land in his passion for Lotus (Tilly Losch), a sing-song girl whom he makes his second wife. To her he gives 0-lan's two pearls...
Peter Neagoe writes about his fellow-Rumanians in English. Though his lan guage has a few traces of foreign accent it reads like a good translation. His stories, almost invariably peopled by simple characters, are simple, tonic, vivid. Earthy but not Scandinavian, he indulges in no metaphysical brooding. His sensibility is stoutly laced in by sense. Though he is a respecter of tragic facts he likes also the unbuttoned bellylaugh...
...Chinese Penelope, Precious Stream puts in the next 18 years waiting in a cave for him to return. When he does, the Wang family is made to eat humble pie and husband & wife live happily ever after. As with The Yellow Jacket a generation ago and the Mei Lan-fang repertory in 1930, Lady Precious Stream is supposed to charm U. S. spectators by presenting the Chinese theatre in all its childish ingenuousness. The characters tap their foreheads to indicate thought, hide behind chairs to avoid each other and. when required to faint, are lowered easily to the floor...