Word: stream
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Dr. Hsiung, Lady Precious Stream is a play of some antiquity. Chinese actors refer to the whole legend as "The Eight Acts about the Wang Family." Fragments of the third and fourth acts, explains Dr. Hsiung, are often presented on the Chinese stage when the bill wants a touch of humor. Two scenes of the second act, on the other hand, are used "for a program which we did not wish to become too hilarious." Occidentals are likely to find that Lady Precious Stream is, in its own way, fairly hilarious all the way through...
Producer Morris Gest announced in Manhattan that the only native actress in the old Chinese fantasy Lady Precious Stream, which opened this week in Manhattan, would be Yuen Tsung (''Maimie") Sze, daughter of Chinese Ambassador to the U. S. Sao-ke Alfred Sze. Pretty, bang-haired "Maimie" Sze has not seen China since she was 5. Educated in the U. S. and England, she was president of her Wellesley class (1931), has since spent most of her time painting. Of her forthcoming stage career she said: "It's not entirely fun. ... I feel honored...
...Allies on a commission of 1%; these purchases had made prosperity for U. S. farmers and manufacturers; to finance these huge purchases the Allies borrowed, first, privately from U. S. bankers, later publicly from U. S. investors. On these facts Author Millis constructed a new interpretation: "The mighty stream of supplies flowed out and the corresponding stream of prosperity flowed in. and the U. S. was enmeshed more deeply than ever in the cause of Allied victory...
Sylvia Scarlett, taken from Compton Mackenzie's novel of 1918, is a story of a set of people whom the main stream of life has pushed a little to one side, sharpening and coloring them unforgettably in the process. It is made memorable by a role that almost steals the show from Miss Hepburn's androgyne: Cary Grant's superb depiction of the cockney...
...throat raw with a cold, described how blood is formed and regenerated within the body. A significant new fact: infections do not prevent the formation of hemoglobin which the body needs to recover from disease, but. do prevent the release of that essential iron-containing substance into the blood stream where it can do the body good...