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...young ladies are nice to look at, and Patric Knowles, as the Duke Hope pretends to be, sings some pleasant songs. But only Hope and Schildkraut, as a villainous Spanish general, know how to put a really fine edge on all this sort of foolishness...
...minutes after Masquerade begins, idealistic cabaret Sarongstress Dorothy Lamour finds herself in Mexico City, knee-deep in a diamond theft, and falling in love with Patric Knowles. As a sort of cushion-shot to win his venomous wife (Ann Dvorak) back from her bullfighting Mexican lover (Arturo de Cordova), Knowles helps Dorothy masquerade as a Countess and gives her plenty of opportunity for song and romance with the bullfighter on the flower-strewn waters of Lake Xochimilco...
Before he visited Japan in 1934, Patric lived for three months in the U.S. the way a poor Japanese lives in Japan. This was to save money for the trip, and also to condition himself for Japanese life. He slept in the front seat of his car, ate canned salmon heated on the exhaust manifold (food cost: 25? a day), pressed his trousers by using the running board and a towel for the ironing board; alto gether saved $375. Then he worked his way across the U.S. to his native North west, stopped at the Nippon Yusen Kaisha office...
...money well spent. Why Japan Was Strong is a candid, simple record of traveling light through a country that most American visitors see expensively, if at all. Author Patric has only one regret. It would be so much easier to hate everything Japanese if he had not made the journey...
...jochu, the pretty servant girl, sat beside him as he ate, remembered how much sugar he liked in his coffee, and pattered into his room in the morning before he was dressed. She had never been kissed. Patric grew fond of her, took her walking in quiet lanes, and when he left gave her an expensive copy of Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, translated into Japanese. "I wanted her never to forget the first man and perhaps the last who kissed her." That idyllic interlude was soon lost in the travels in industrial Japan, Korea, Occupied China, in questionings...