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Fans all around the league were joking and laughing as Penn had stumbled in the most humiliating manner. The “worst” team in the league was spanking the Quakers on its home floor. The Palestra was silent...
...STRONG, SILENT AND OBLIVIOUS...
...Zhang Ziyi, soon to star (as a Japanese!) in Bob Marshall's Memoirs of a Geisha, may duplicate her Asian luminosity. But Wong was the No. 1 Chinese lady, from the teens to the 60s, and there was no No. 2. Against devastating odds, she made her name in silent films in the U.S., with Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Bagdad, and abroad, starring in the amazing Anglo-German Piccadilly. Like Greta Garbo, Wong developed a gestural language for silent film and attached it to her already formidable screen presence. When sound came in, she wanted to stick around...
...Dozens of silent stars failed in the talking pictures that went from novelty in 1927 to the norm by 1930. Wong had garnered raves for speaking German with a natural precision in her first talkie, Hai-Tang. Her West End stage debut in The Circle of Chalk, though, was calamitous. Critics derided her "Yankee squeak," and the show's producer, Basil Dean, blamed her for its early close. Apparently, she didn't always project for audiences to hear her, and when they did they were appalled by her flat California diction. Well, she was from California. Maybe she didn...
...Lady from Chungking reunited Wong with William Nigh, who had directed her in two silent films. She plays Kwan Mei, a rebel leader who is organizing guerrillas in the hills while wheedling strategic information from Kaimura, the Japanese officer in town. "There is a fragile but durable beauty in you, Madame," purrs the smitten swine, to which Kwan Mei says, "Perhaps I'm as aged-looking as the Great Wall." No, she is fetching in her improbable gear. Anthony Chan observes: "Even as the rebel leader in the rice fields, Kwan Mei wears a silk suit with handwoven buttons...