Word: nanning
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Little Brother. Chen Cheng is certainly a favorite. He is the only one of Chiang Kai-shek's generals whom the Generalissimo addresses by the Chinese diminutive, ti, "little brother." He rivals much-talked-of General Hu Tsung-nan, leader of the influential "Whampoa Clique," as candidate to succeed the Generalissimo. He and Hu are the only two generals who are permitted to receive orders direct from the Generalissimo without the countersignature of politically powerful Minister for War Ho Ying-chin...
...Cheeloo, Fukien Christian, Ginling, Hangchow Christian, Hua Chung, Hwa Nan, Lingan, Nanking, St. John's, Shanghai, Soochow, West China Union, Yenching...
Vocalist record-of-the-month: Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (Vocalion), sung with great skill and taste by Nan Wynn, rising Negro chanteuse, and excellently accompanied by Walter Gross's band...
...Storm (Universal). Charles Bickford, Preston Foster and Nan Grey in a virile melodrama exhibiting the up-to-date agonies of ocean-going wireless operators...
Charles Bickford staggers bravely through "The Storm," which takes place at sea and nearly prevents Nan Grey from draining Preston Foster's appendices which needed draining. It is a messy but moderately interesting second feature...