Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peacemaker. Almost irrelevant to the real Chinese situation last week were screeching headlines about appeals to President Hoover and the League of Nations by Nationalist Foreign Minister C. T. Wang (Yale, 1911). In his own capital Mr. Wang was credited with having utterly bungled the Chino-Russian imbroglio. The Shanghai Council of the Nationalist Party passed a resolution of censure demanding his resignation, stigmatized him as "a rogue." His one chance lay in shrieking so vociferously about the "red menace" that the great powers would intervene...
...Shanghai Lady (Universal). The suggestion of toughness in Mary Nolan's pouting, blonde good looks is well capitalized in this picture. She is a fancy lady who has been kicked out of the worst joint in Shanghai but who pretends to be refined when she meets a handsome gentleman on a train. The gentleman (James Murray) is a crook who has escaped from a Chinese prison. He copies Nolan's respectable front. Even dull directing, bad dialog and indifferent recording fail to blot out something touching and terrible in their momentary romance. Best shot: tea for two in a Chinese...
...increase the foreign "lookout posts" for U. S. agriculture from three to ten. He explained: "If we expect to expand our exports and understand our surpluses at home we must know conditions abroad." Proposed U. S. farm outposts: London, Berlin, Paris, Marseilles, Copenhagen, Bucharest, Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Johannesburg, Shanghai. Meanwhile, with the harvest almost over, the major situations confronting the Board last week were as follows: Wheat. A European buyers' strike made the U. S. supply mount up to peak levels, despite this year's reduced yield and the scare of a world wheat shortage. Latest crop estimate...
Metropolitan -- The Love Doctor (Dix); "Shanghai Jesters" Review. 11 to 11.30 o'clock. Reviewed in this issue...
...rest of the production, "Shanghai Jesters" it, too, is very typical of the Met. Dancing, singing, attempts at humor are all present. And as usual there is one extremely good vaudeville act. This time it is a barrel juggling stunt which would be better if it were alloted more time and space...