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...looks as if Judge Knox is going to have some fun kidding the picture's moral. Instead, he falls earnestly in love with a pert little war widow (Ann Sothern) who gives him a job in her roadside restaurant. After several reels of platonic romance and irresponsibility, the lotus-eating judge remembers that he is a married man and boards a train for Boston, intending to get a divorce. But by this time it is clear that he is actually going to resume the duties of a responsible citizen...
...news was broken gently to San Franciscans. After 40 years of looking more like the inside of an old Moulmein pagoda than a retail store, S. & G. Gump Co., the pride of Post Street, was Westernizing itself. On its temple-quiet second floor, the famed Treasure, Ivory, Porcelain and Lotus rooms, which had ranked with the Cliff House and Chinatown as S&iA Francisco tourist attractions, were ruthlessly torn out. Gump's was spending $150,000 to streamline one of the Occident's richest treasure houses of the Orient...
Death Among the Blossoms. A grimy, black-toothed Buddhist monk, leaning over a balcony in red-walled, pagoda-roofed Chi Ming (Temple of the Crowing Cock), nods his head down the mountainside toward Lotus Lake. "The willow trees," he says, "are very beautiful this year, but no one seems to care." The willows are blossoming with delicate, pale-green traceries. Peach and cherry blossoms are out, too. Along the top of the crenelated wall that surrounds the city, daisies, pansies and violets bloom. But few notice them in this unhappy spring...
...indexed folders of biographical, historical, business and otherwise usefully classified information. * The answers, in order: 1) Yellow Kid by Richard Outcoult, in the New York World; 2) 280 days; 3) Yes. At the 1924 convention in New York City; 4) Not even the wisest hagiologist knows; 5) lotus blossoms, phlox pods, the squirting cucumber of southern Europe; 6) average cost of a Class 6 battleship: $92,122,100; 7) an estimated...
...shabby, kindly, skeptical old Ichiro Oga, a onetime Tokyo University professor known as "Professor Lotus," planted microphones by the blossoms in Shinobazu Pond to settle, once & for all, the explosive question. The microphones picked up no sound, and ever since the professor has scoffed at those who claim to have heard the lotus. But last week, like the others, Professor Lotus himself was listening again in the Tokyo swamps. He heard nothing. But there were those who did. Some told him the sound was like "kotsu." Some thought it was more like "quew," very softly spoken...