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Sewing Chinese coolie's into sharks was characteristic of the cinema activities of the late Ernest Torrence who died last fortnight after an operation for gallstones (TIME, May 22). He massacred Indians in The Covered Wagon, kidnapped children in Peter Pan and; as Professor Moriarity, almost did away with Sherlock Holmes. When he was a young man, Ernest Torrence planned to be a musician. He wrote the music for a play called The Lady from Lyons, was first baritone for the Savoy Opera Company in London. His lanky 6-ft. 4-in. physique, tufted eyebrows, gargoyle nose and prickly...
...gallstones: in Manhattan. Born in Scotland, he began his career as a concert pianist, later sang in London comic operas and musical comedies. He entered cinema in 1922 as the villain in Tol-able David, skyrocketed to fame in the part of rangy, gangling Bill Jackson (The Covered Wagon...
...proof that China was "serious" about wanting to dicker. Meanwhile in the evacuated territory north of Tientsin the Chinese soldiers strutted like heroes for their brief moment.* Scamp Shot. A hint of Japan's real intentions in China exploded last week in Peiping's Grand Hotel des Wagon-Lits. An assassin shot and gravely wounded that thoroughgoing scamp General Chang Ching-yao, onetime military governor of Hunan Province. Police announced that Chang's mission was to set up a monarchy in northern China with Japanese money. Monarch was to be hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi. now puppet...
...with tactics they learned in the Army. Somewhere in all this there may have been the germ of a potent picture but if so it was sterilized by second-rate dialog and second-hand situations. What is left are a few authentic and interesting episodes-like the contest in wagon-loading by Hoffman's drivers-strung together on the thin thread of a skillful performance by Hersholt...
...those names. Stalin, Trotsky and Maxim Gorki are the famed pseudonyms they have adopted. Least potent but most popular of the three is Gorki, Red Russia's Grand Old Man of Letters. Long before the Revolution, when it was still in the lower depths, he hitched his wagon to the Red star; as the star rose, so rose Gorki. His birthplace, Nizhni-Novgorod (chief navigation centre on the Volga River famed for its annual fair and now the site of a state automobile plant) has been renamed Gorki (TIME...