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...nearly 100 animal specimens collected there was not a single new species, let alone a new genus or a new family. A general air of disappointment was discernible. When Dr. Anthony descended at last, after ten days aloft, the others had gone off to climb nearby Wotan's Throne, another possible but not probable "biological island...
...gaudy blue & gold dress uniform of a Field Marshal, the owl-eyed Son of Heaven, Hirohito, Emperor of Japan last week addressed his parliament from the Throne. Assembled for an emergency session, the legislators were expected to vote an additional $592,000,000 for a war that has already cost Japan $145,000,000. Said the Emperor...
...hand-picked Chinese police began laboriously to learn the Japanese language. The Peiping Chamber of Commerce opened Japanese language classes to make it easier for Chinese shopkeepers to sell things to their "new masters." There was even rumor that Japan would bring back to Peiping from his dragon-&-orchid throne in Manchukuo's capital 31-year-old Emperor Kang Te, famed as "Mr. Henry Pu Yi," last of China's Manchu Emperors, who abdicated when the Republic was set up in 1912, was crowned Emperor of Manchukuo by Japan...
Rassendyll's job is to rescue Rudolf and hand over the throne, so that he can unbosom himself to Flavia. Before he gains his objective Colman proves himself an expert at fighting with tables, has a mighty brisk bout of swordplay with Douglas Fairbanks. Even the tried-&-true finale will seem to a reasonably sentimental audience as good-enough as old-time religion. Because there is a tiny hamlet in Canada (Zenda, Ont.) named in honor of The Prisoner of Zenda, far-fetching Selznick Publicity Man Russell Birdwell fetched Zenda's entire population (12) down to the Manhattan...
Seeking Divorce. The Countess of Covadonga, onetime Cuban belle Marta Rocafort; from the Count of Covadonga, onetime heir to the throne of Spain, whom she married in July (TIME, July 12); in Havana, Cuba. Cause: "incompatibility of characters...