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When Japan stopped fooling in 1910, annexed Chosen and gave Li-Hsi's successor his walking papers. Oriental Consolidated was the oldest, biggest, richest, gold mining company in the Orient. Japan wryly observed the provisions of Oriental's charter: for payment of Y25,000 (about $8,500) annually to the Chosen Government, the mining company was free from all taxes, import-export duties. Eight years ago Japan got tough, embargoed gold exports, forced Oriental to sell gold to her at prices below the world market, paid off in unsteady Yen. Last week Oriental, last big U. S. concession...
Lady of the Tropics (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). "In the Orient," as M. Jacques Delaroch (Joseph Schildkraut) has occasion to tell young Bill Carey (Robert Taylor) early in this picture, "we are less concerned with changing things than with enjoying them." A half-caste who-has made himself one of the richest men in French Indo-China, M. Delaroch is content to enjoy the attentions of half-caste Manon de Vargnes (Hedy Lamarr), cares nothing about her ambition to escape to Paris and change herself into a Frenchwoman. When Bill takes a good look at Manon, jumps the yacht on which...
Author Vicki Baum this week moved her Grand Hotel from Europe to the Orient. Her scene: a Shanghai hotel, in the summer of 1937. Her cast of ten carefully disparate characters: a Chinese banker, his Occidentalized son, a refugee Jewish surgeon who had won the Iron Cross, a svelte White Russian married to a drunken English millionaire, a bespectacled little Japanese journalist, a trained nurse from Iowa and her self-pitying fiance from Hawaii, a tuberculous coolie, a young German musician turned opium addict...
...kingdom of Albania was seized by the Italians last April. Having spent most of the time since his flight from Albania at Istanbul, Turkey, Zog recently decided to transfer his home to France. Shortest and quickest route from Istanbul to Paris would have been by rail on either the Orient Express or the Simplon Orient. The Orient goes through Germany and the Simplon through Italy. Zog first arranged to travel by Soviet steamer from Istanbul direct to Marseille, stopping only at Peiraeus, Greece, and Alexandria, Egypt. Normal route of such a journey, however, is through the Strait of Messina...
...literature of flying there are few literary books. Among the few: Cecil Lewis' Sagittarius Rising, Anne Lindbergh's North to the Orient, Jimmy Collins' Test Pilot, Antoine de Saint Exupéry's Night Flight. Most imaginative of these was Night Flight (1932), the work of a tall, tilt-nosed 39-year-old French airmail flier for whom the air offers a lesson in man's fate...