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...speeches, made a bigger impression on Hollywood's writing colony than any recent visiting celebrity except Hemingway. Aloof, he would speak only through an interpreter, cocked a quizzical, disapproving eye when his French was badly translated. His hosts saw him unbend only when he ate his first alligator pear and when he got tight in Los Angeles' Olvera Street...
Having showed that he could draw likenesses of living people well, by sketching the face of a man whom he caught in the act of robbing his father's pear orchard, Tom at fourteen was sent off to London to study painting. In four years he was supporting himself. At twenty he fell in love with Margaret Burr, a young lady of confused origin who possessed many charms, including an annuity of $1000. After painting her portrait, he married her and settled in Ipswich...
...more how a star is born. Studio specialists on clothes, coiffure, and voice view him with alarm. He refuses a Robert Taylor widow's peak, practices voice culture with, "The Dyuke blyew on his hunting horn and loffed, ha, ha, ha, when the hounds came running." Baffled by pear- shaped vowels, he escapes to the set where the old Cagney reasserts itself in two brawls, one in the script, the other extemporaneous...
This was clear enough to anyone who recalls what Japan has been putting over on China in recent years. In Shanghai the mere suspicion that a Chinese had thrown a pear core out the window of a restaurant at a Japanese sailor was taken by Japan as an excuse to land hundreds of marines, exact abject apologies from Chinese authorities (TIME, Oct. 5), and even now the Chinese restaurant proprietor is forced to call every day upon the Japanese marine commander in Shanghai and report what progress is being made in catching the Chinese thrower of that pear core...
...pear core incident is palatable news in any language, but only with the tedious figures of economists is it possible to show that Japan has been exacting for years from China concession after concession involving millions if not billions in tariff favors. The state railways of the Chinese Dictator have in certain instances run each day and for as many months as required, a special "smugglers' freight car" for the convenience of Japanese and Koreans engaged in systematically evading the customs duties of North China. One can buy Japanese goods openly in China today at prices less than...