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...story: a boatman of Wan Hsien becomes embroiled in an argument with an overbearing American who, during the altercation, falls off the quay, is drowned. Lying in the harbor is H. M. S. Europa, whose commander, immediately upon hearing of the accident, declares that a white man has been murdered and demands as restitution a fitting funeral, indemnity, the lives of two members of the boatman's guild. If he is not given satisfaction he will destroy the town. As he threatens, his great grey fortress slides forward and the hard mouths of his guns glower down upon the frightened...
Will H. Hays, cinema tsar: "We are gathering momentum for an upward swing that will lead the world recovery. American prosperity will rearise, not pale and wan, from the sickbed of wasting remedies but strong and vigorous...
...injured in religious riots in his own city of Bombay last year; one can imagine the welter which would follow if the British surrendered effective control. Groups which out one another's throats in the face of the foreigner would not be likely to agree among themselves when he wan gone If India were a nation there would be no differences such an alien rulers could "capitalize." Chas W. Lightbody...
When Author LoBagola was seven, he and 13 other boys (the oldest n) wan- dered too far from the village, got lost, after 45 days came to the sea. There they saw a steamship, went out to it in a canoe, clambered aboard. LoBagola wandered down to the engine room. When the warning siren blew, it so terrified the little black boys on deck that they jumped over the rail, were all drowned or killed by sharks. LoBagola, locked in a cabin, was carried to Scotland, a savage little animal who' would not wear clothes, bit people who tried...
...MacOwan which substitutes sentimentalism and pasteboard glamor for the more rugged emphasis of the late great Thomas Carlyle. Actor Leslie Banks is introduced as a penniless Scotsman, living morally and thriftily in the garret of a bordello and studying to be an insurance actuary. Actress Helen Menken is a wan creature who faints on his doorstep. He befriends her to the extent of a bed, a portion of his gruel and the services of a doctor. The backslid daughter of a scholar, she can quote reams of the pious Carlyle, but she compares her own way of life to that...