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...exhibition of double-crossing unrivalled even among the Chinese. Having first received thousands of dollars from his patriotic countrymen, he then fled before the Japanese advance, then accepted a reputed bribe of $3,000,000 gold to be first War Minister of the independent Manchukuo puppet state. Next he slipped off to remote Northern Manchuria and announced his undying opposition to Japan again; this time, according to legend, accepting a few contributions from Soviet sources (TIME, April...
...object to the designation 'puppet state' for Manchukuo. That was one of the errors of the Lytton Report. There is a certain analogy between the Japanese-Manchukuo relationship and the United States-Cuba relationship, but there is also this difference: Japan did not first conquer Manchukuo and then give it virtual independence. Manchukuo sprang into being as an independent state. As such it is not a protectorate, just a friendly nation. . . . Your country has not made the sacrifices in developing its neighbors that Japan has made in Manchuria. I question whether the United States would permit the territory...
George Raft is not too successful as the cab driver. He was like a puppet guided by an inexpert amateur. Especially in the scenes with the society siren did he show his lack of versatility in acting. A pleasant contrast to the poor interpretation of Mr. Raft was the almost flawless acting of Miss Sidney. She has remarkable reserve in depicting sentimentally emotional scenes which Helen Hayes, who has been so highly praised, lacks. Without a flood of tears, with the slightest modulation in voice, which paradoxically should be the reaction of the opposite emotion, she can show her consternation...
While art is subordinated to the shy mocking burlesque peculiar to the puppet, color schemes and settings by Bruno Angoletta are forceful and direct. The leading puppets preserve the illusion of being life size while the "business" in the show is carried on by "minor puppets" carved by peasants of the wood-carving school of Val Gardena, Alps...
Unlike the Tony Sarg productions, no serious effort is made at realism. The puppets are a race apart, talented and entertaining, but with the temperament of a Pinocchio. It is scarcely possible to describe "The Piccoli" as a mere puppet show, it is rather a carnival, acted by an immense cast under the aegis of a group of maestros in the art of manipulating marionettes...