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Equally well selected were those who played the minor roles and who provided background for the story laid in imperial Russia about 1875. Anna Sten shows ability to act and is something more than a pleasing puppet. Her portrayal is sincere, charming, and natural. Frederic March does well as Dmitri and although at times we are conscious of his acting he turns in a splendid characterization that is moving and realistic. The director makes use of symbolism a great deal which at times is overdone but in some scenes is artistic and adds greatly to the interpretation of the story...
...power in determining which of the captured criminals shall be prosecuted and how the prosecution shall be managed. He has the dangerous alternative of following up a case with vigor, or allowing it to be deferred and lost in the maze of court routine. Yet this officer remains the puppet of local politicians, subject to their selfish will, and forced by the necessities of reelection to bow to their decisions on the advisability of prosecution in certain cases...
...same foreign oil firms are being squeezed, if possible, even harder. The Japanese Government owns half the stock of the South Manchuria Railway, which in turn owns 40% of something called the Manchuria Oil Co., 80% of whose stock is in Japanese hands. To this firm His Majesty the puppet Emperor of Manchukuo has been graciously pleased to grant a monopoly of petroleum sales within his realm. President of the Oil Monopoly is Mr. Keizaburo Hashimoto, brother-in-law of famed General Takashi ("Happy Sparrow") Hishikari, the Japanese Ambassador to Manchukuo and Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Army...
...odds on Peace in the Far East rose sharply last week. Japan and Soviet Russia had virtually reached the end of their huge haggle over the famed Chinese Eastern Railway. This road meandering for 1,000 mi. across the upper half of Japan's puppet state Manchukuo cost Tsarist Russia $400,000,000 (preWar) to build. Its normal annual profit from 1924 to 1930 was nearly 20,000,000 gold rubles* a year. Even in 1933, after Japan had seized Manchuria, it earned 11,500,000 rubles. It was shorter, by 3,300 mi., than the Trans-Siberian Railroad...
...major catastrophe always seems to follow Japan's acquisition of new land. After the Sino-Japanese War, which added Formosa, the Pescadores Islands, and the puppet Kingdom of Korea to the Empire of the Rising Sun, the earthquake of 1896 killed 27,102. After the Russo-Japanese War and the acquisition of Port Arthur, the Kwantung Peninsula and the southern half of Sakhalin, the Formosa earthquake of 1906 killed 1,228. After the Treaty of Versailles gave Japan a precious bagful of Pacific Island mandates, came the terrible earthquake of 1923 which killed 91,344. And three years...