Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colyumnist June Provines of the Chicago Daily News retailed an anecdote illustrating how Britain's royal family regards the towering coiffures and hats of Queen Mary: Returning from the Orient, Prince Henry, third son of Their Majesties, took an orchestra and a gay group of passengers to the ship's nursery for dancing. Discovering a set of scales with height-measuring attachment, H. R. H. proceeded to weigh and measure each & every guest. When a guest with a high pompadour stepped up, Prince Henry pressed his hair down, remarked: "I have to pat you down like papa does...
...United Artists) is an animated album of vacation photographs, showing how an ingenious celebrity comports himself abroad. The celebrity is Douglas Fairbanks. The pictures of Fairbanks '"doing" the Orient are accompanied by a mono-log, written by Robert Sherwood, in which Fairbanks makes comments, derisive or enthusiastic, on himself and his surroundings...
...novelty because it is witty and de luxe, the record of a trip which must have been fun and of a personality which is happy, egoistic, alert. Douglas Fairbanks obviously enjoyed making it, should enjoy a handsome profit from his pleasure. Last week he set off for the Orient again, this time accompanied by four technicians. Director Lewis Milestone and Writer Robert Benchley...
Funnyman Will Rogers sailed for the Orient with his friend Correspondent Floyd Gibbons to report the Manchurian hostilities. Said he: "Japan is going to hear the awfulest compliments, as I hear they don't stand for any wisecracks...
...cause of the keen interest which everyone has shown in the recent Sino-Japanese crisis is found in the fear of another world war. Predictions have been made since the last great war that the next one would start in the Orient. In the present disturbance people see the possibility of these coming true. In their alarm they lose track of the tremendous result which this contest may have beside which another world war is insignificant...