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The fullest deposit vaults are in the big International Settlement and the French Concession at Shanghai. There are only guesses as to how much wealth (foreign and Chinese) is on deposit there, but if Japan, already forced to tighten her belt to carry on the Chinese "incident," could get her...
Ambassador Saito more or less endeared himself to the U. S. by drinking Scotch whisky and playing poker. Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi's technique is even more bland, more thoroughly Americanized than that of his late classmate at the Imperial University. His conversation, like his countenance, is smooth and affable...
Like Occidental music, Chinese falls into two camps: classical and popular. Most of what U. S. listeners hear (in Chinatown theatres and restaurants) belongs to the popular type. But last week Manhattanites got a chance to hear samples of China's classical music played by the highest-browed of...
A.D. For Occidental audiences, the heroine of Sable Cicada (Violet Koo) represents a combination of Pocahontas, Martha Washington, Molly Pitcher and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Foster daughter of an elderly statesman, she patriotically undertakes to relieve his political difficulties by becoming simultaneously concubine to the fat old Prime Minister and fiancee...
To an untutored occidental eye, "quaint" is the word for Persian miniature paintings. Humay Meeting Humayun (see cut), painted on silk about 1430, is a far cry from the type of pseudo-Persian fantasy, with harem maidens, moons and gazelles, affected by occidental illustrators. This painting, 6 by 8½...