Word: li
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists had launched the beginning of an invasion when they tried to storm the tiny island of Chin Men, just off the mainland from Amoy and 130 miles across the Strait of Formosa. The attack was a bloody failure. Nationalist troops commanded by trim, V.M.I.-trained General Sun Li-jen, who four months ago was placed in charge of Formosa's defense, routed a Communist assault force of 20,000, returned to Formosa with 7,000 prisoners. Most of the Reds have since been reorganized into Sun's forces...
...Texas, Li'l Darlin1 (book by John Whedon & Sam Moore; produced by Studio Productions, Inc. & Anthony Brady Farrell Productions) is suitably Texan in size and general good nature. But it is no less Texan in sprawl; it ranges over a lot. of flat country, strikes snags more often than oil, and displays no great sense of direction. Half satiric and half folksy, it is never quite sure whether it is stalking wild life or big shots, finally bags neither...
...spoofing, Texas, Li'l Darlin' is sporadic and seldom adept. It shines brightest in Johnny Mercer's lyrics, notably about private secretaries...
...Communists bore down on the Nationalist shadow capital of Chungking, Acting President Li Tsung-jen took off on an inspection tour of his native Kwangsi province. Last week, he stepped off a plane in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, announced he would enter a hospital for treatment of an old gastric ailment. In Chungking, wily old Shansi warlord Yen Hsi-shan, Taiyuan's unsuccessful defender (TIME, June 13), stepped into Li's place. Secretaries kept Li's office open, but no one really thought that he would be back...
...Texas, Li'l Darlin'" is nicely costumed, has some good dancing and an energetic and talented cast. By a great deal of work some good may come of it. But as it stands now, it is considerably below the level of some of the less-successful Pudding shows, and a good deal like some of them in that it falls between two chairs. Of course, the girls are real in this...