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...Mei li jen loo mung. American visitors to the Espey home usually called spindly-legged little John Espey "Toothpicks" or "Droopy Drawers." But to the Chinese servants he was "the only son of an only son, first cousin to the President of the U.S. ... a nephew of the King of England, and [owner of] the tongue of a five-clawed dragon." Twenty American gunboats lay on the Whangpoo, simply waiting for him to whistle them up to shell his enemies to bits. He was familiar with the tomb of General Grant, and hailed from Pittsburgh - a spot that in piety...
...came a Christian and returned to China to father one of the world's most distinguished broods of children. T.V. is the brother of the famed Soong sisters, China's three first ladies— Ching-ling (Madame Sun Yat-sen), Ailing (Madame H. H. Kung), Mei-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek). Of Soong's three sons, only T. V. has rivaled his sisters in place and prestige...
...they were too busy climbing garden walls, studying Confucius, learning Chinese nursery rhymes, Jesus Loves Me, and the story of George Washington to know what the little revolutionist would mean to China and to them. T.V. was a weedy adolescent (he outgrew his clothes every three months, and Sister Mei-ling wore his hand-me-downs) when the Revolution of 1911 broke out. "Uncle" Sun was not even around. He was in a Denver, Colo. restaurant, collecting funds from Chinese sympathizers in the U.S. But by November 1911, he came back to China. Two months later, he took the oath...
Lassie is the Mei Lan-fang of dog actors. She is a he. The name used to be Pal. Pal was born the runt of his litter. For a while, Trainer Rudd Weatherwax, who readies quite a few dogs and cats for the screen, had given Pal up as histrionically hopeless. But when M.G.M. saw the first rushes for Lassie, they immediately upped Pal's salary from $90 to $250 per week. Even Pal's stand-in got $100 a week...
Reported Dead. Mei Lan-fang, 49, great Chinese tan (actress); of poison; in Shanghai. Although Mei's mastery of the masks, makeup, swords and fans of plot-bare, nuance-encrusted Chinese plays mystified Manhattan theatergoers in 1930, he was the biggest box-office name in China and long top-ranking tan (father of two sons, he always played feminine roles). Emperor Hsuan-tung confirmed his title, "Foremost of the Pear Orchard" -Chinese equivalent of an "Oscar...