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When Coach Benny Lorn of San Francisco's Chinese football team counted noses before the game with the city's Japanese team at Kezar Stadium last week, twelve players were missing, including Charley Chan, onetime star of Commerce High School. The absentees were less afraid of their opponents, or the possibility of the game's ending in a riot as it did the last time they played in 1930, than they were of their parents. Most Chinese families had forbidden their sons to play with the Japanese boys since matters had gone so far in Manchuria...
...Coach Lorn is not Chinese. He is a Jew who was once a crack halfback of University of California.* He artfully persuaded his players who did show up that their parents would probably be less irate if they won. However the Japanese, including two former college linemen named Ping Oda and Ichiyafu, outplayed them for three periods. Then the Chinese team pulled itself together. Leong blocked Sim Nambu's punt on Japan's 8-yd. line, and Charley Hing slashed to a touchdown. Another blocked kick and Hing went over again. With the score 13-to-12 against...
This is, of course, no romantic, bourgeois melodrama. Love interest is repressed to the lone, lorn, renegade Turkmaiden, who cooks and simpers for our heroes. Humor, in the enlightened sense of the word, is lacking, but good shots of Young Communists having a real side-splitting cachinnation excite a sympathetic titter in the audience. Unless the film has been miserably cut, it is filled with inexcusably bewildering digressions: the Playgoer is still puzzling over the meaning of storm upon storm, hands beating the harem door, the profusion of dead camels,--a species reputedly drought-proof,--and many prayers to Allah...
...against the laissez-faire attitude adopted toward this menace. I am sure most members of the University will endorse the protest. There are times when one envisions Harvard as a fortress guarded by an infinite number of whirling autos, buses and street cars, forming a gamut through which the lorn pedestrian must pass...
...write particularly to get people to go to lectures, and quite frankly that familiar sentence "today the Vagabond will go to hear--" is merely a terminal convenience, a tradition much like the King opening parliament. Nor is the Vagabond a cheap penny columnist, no adviser to the love lorn he! He writes for the same reason the man thumbed his nose at the Queen, it seems to be the best thing to do at the time. It is a great satisfaction to him to dash off the manifold things that come to mind, and it isn't his fault...