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...labor boss, Lui Ning-i, listing some-doubtless not all-of the Chinese projects on which Russian experts have been working: the Peking-Hankow, Canton-Hankow, Chengtu-Chungking and Tienshui-Lanchow railways; the Huai River conservation plan (employing some 5,000,000 workers, many of them slave laborers); the Chinkiang water detention basin, the new Tangku harbor in Tientsin. According to best estimates, there are 60,000 Russians "helping out" in China...
...Darlin' Aida (music by Giuseppe Verdi; book & lyrics by Charles Friedman) shifts its scene from the Memphis, Egypt of Aida to Memphis, Tenn. in 1861. Aida, Amneris and Radames of Verdi's opera become respectively a lovely slave girl (Elaine Malbin), her imperious young mistress (Dorothy Sarnoff) and a Confederate officer (Howard Jarratt) who loves the slave girl but is engaged to her mistress. The story is a tangle of Negro uprisings, hooded night riders, beatings, and death for the lovers...
...Labor last week compiled a grisly box score of killings committed by Mao Tse-tung's Red Chinese regime. Among them: ¶Landlords or village despots-4,970,000. ¶Kuomintang (Nationalist) reactionaries-2,950,000. ¶Bandits-2,600,000. ¶Treacherous merchants-875,663. ¶Slave laborers impressed into the Red army and worked to death or assigned to the suicide units used in "human sea" assaults...
...menace. "To the student who knows nothing but social science, man is known only by his function or participation in the group. If a man himself is most notable because he is a member of a social institution, no matter how exalted the institution, he is already a slave...
Hurricane Smith (Nat Holt; Paramount) is a flurry of low melodrama on the high seas. Included in the excitement: pirates taking over a slave ship, a battle between the ship's officers and the shanghaied crew, a hunt for buried treasure in the South Seas, a fight between a shark and Hurricane Smith (John Ireland). Also aboard is an exotic half-Polynesian girl (Yvonne de Carlo) who does a native love dance on the deck of the pirate ship dressed in the sketchiest of sarongs...