Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Music in May. All the traditions of the once extremely popular comic opera are fulfilled in this importation from Vienna. There is a Bavarian prince who falls in love with the daughter of an umbrella maker. There are plenty of students about to break into melody at the faintest hint of a song cue. And there is the sputtery gentleman who provides the comedy. It is all very well done, with a rousing score, and bright contributions by Solly Ward, Gertrude Lang, Bartlett Simmons, Greek Evans. Best song: "Unto Your Heart...
...little hope of heading off the Yankees in the American League. Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), Philadelphia's oldtime practitioner, has virtually the same team that proved unequal to the task last year. Other teams have improved but probably not enough. The American League has two new managers who may stir new interest. Walter Johnson, long venerated pitcher (now retired) of the Washington Senators is now in charge of the team. Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, whom he replaced, has taken over the Detroit team...
...great arsenal in Mukden is going to be transformed into an automobile factory, by far the largest in the East. We shall make 'Chinese Dragon' cars and also 'Baby Dragons.' I see no reason why one day China may not export these cars to Europe and America...
...present the Mukden Arsenal is working overtime to produce enough artillery, rifles and ammunition for the latest Chinese civil war. So perfect and efficient are copies of the famed French "75" field gun now made in Mukden, that if ever the arsenal is set to copying motor cars it may prove difficult to tell a "Baby Dragon" from an "Austin Seven." Similarly, tractors are made in Soviet Russia so exactly like those produced by Henry Ford- even to the name plate - that simple peasants to whom they are sold never know the difference...
...slight Christianizing of Mohammedan ritual. Correspondents reported that this would include the wearing of shoes and slippers in the mosques instead of leaving them at the door as good Mohammedans have done since the prophet's day. Moreover, instead of kneeling on prayer rugs, the Kemalized Mohammedans may be seated in pews...