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...Pearl Buck novel, The Patriot, on Orson Welles' Campbell Playhouse (successor to his Mercury Theatre on the Air), supported by future Citizen Kane co-stars Ray Collins and Everett Sloane (as Chiang Kai-shek!). Wong played Peony, a servant in the house of the mandarin-turned-revolutionary I-Wan (Welles). Again she gets star billing; again she has a small role...
...Listening to the show on the Mercury Theatre on the Air website, I winced to hear Wong make three gaffes in less than a minute: pronouncing the Welles character's name once as "Aye-Wan," a few moments later as "Ee-Wan"; then blowing a simple line ("Oh I'm not used - not used to - oh I'm used to serving, not sitting down with the others"); and finally stammering out a scene-ending sentence ("Tell me more, En-lan - En-lan - tell me more about this revolution") while the other actors try to cover and step on her line...
...looking for it and can't find it, and we have to go back two or three times looking for it." Desperate people rush the helicopters and risk being sliced by the blades. "We're lucky most of them are pretty short," he says with a wan smile. Now they try to get a translator off the choppers first to keep villagers back. "We try and fly different routes every day to find villages we're missing. We found one today because they had laid out an H in a field with white stones...
...Nadiah Wan ’07 was at her home in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, when the earthquake...
...Wan wrote that she had no family or friends who died but that many of them were “lucky to escape” from coastal regions...