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Married. Rudolf Friml, 67, Bohemian-born composer of schmalzy light operas (The Vagabond King, Rose Marie, The Firefly); and Kay Ling, 39, his Chinese-American secretary; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in San Francisco...
Last week, having cut half a dozen new kiddy classics (e.g., Santa Claus Is Coming to Town; Ting-a-Ling-a-Jingle) for the Christmas trade, friendly Frank Luther, 51, was warming up for a personal-appearance tour. He has a ready routine, stumbled on by accident on his first school tour five years...
What should a new-style, progressive Chinese wife do when her husband turns out to be a dreadful reactionary? Mrs. Ling Hua-tang knew: call the cops and let them take care of him as they will. Last week, proud of herself, Mrs. Ling wrote a letter to Canton's official Communist Southern Daily, which printed it as a guide to fellow "progressives...
...years," wrote Mrs. Ling, "there was hidden suffering in my heart. I knew my husband was a reactionary. During Kuomintang days, he was an officer in the 160th Division of Chiang's bandit army. In those days, he bullied me often, and I had to endure it. Then came the [Communist] liberation...
...antipathy to the U.S.," I am sure [he gave no] such impression two months ago. He discussed U.S. aid objectively, as the way to prevent World War III ... If those around him are anti-American, we have only ourselves to blame. In 1927, when General Chiang married Mei-ling Soong, he wanted very much to visit the U.S.A. and Europe. Trouble with his Communists, which . . . has continued to this day, kept him from making that trip. We are just beginning to learn in this country what he has been up against for more than 20 years...