Word: nan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bombing planes used ruthlessly against rebels have brought China the blessing of greater unity under her Nanking Government than seemed remotely possible even three years ago. Much to the Government's regret last week that Great Unifier, Colonel Shu Pei-kun, commander of Nan-chang air base, proved to have embezzled $1,000,000 Mex. ($360,000). Swish! - the broad sword of a Chinese executioner cut off Shu's head...
...when Lillian Gish played Camille. Last summer an audience in 1890 costume watched The Merry Widow. For last week's performance Scene Designer Robert Edmond Jones selected Othello, persuaded Walter Huston to take a six-week vacation from Dodsworth in Manhattan to appear as the Moor with Nan Sunderland (Mrs. Huston) as Desdemona...
...Central City's Opera House and its 750 hickory seats were redolent of the past, there was nothing antique last week about what happened on the stage. Walter Huston made Othello a modern hero, lively, admirable and forlorn. Nan Sunderland's Desdemona was a graceful and impulsive lady, much more exciting than the demure Desdemonas who were in vogue when Central City last saw Othello. Kenneth MacKenna, whose brother. Scene Designer Jo Mielziner, was in the audience, made lago a villain of monstrous subtlety and venom. The Jones' sets, sparkling with Venetian color, were amazingly well handled...
...history. Who, for instance, was the famed Dark Lady of the Sonnets Bernard Shaw and the late Frank Harris "proved" she was Mary Fitton, maid-of-honor at Elizabeth's court. Countess de Chambrun (Cincinnati-born sister of the late Nicholas Longworth) thinks the Dark Lady was Mistress Nan Davenant, wife of an Oxford innkeeper...
...Wallace, 58, dean of police reporters for the New York City News Association (TIME, Feb. 26); of a heart attack following pleurisy; in Manhattan. A "district" man, he telephoned his stories to rewrite men, reported among others such famed incidents as the shooting of Stanford White, the Nan Patterson case, the Slocum disaster...