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...Academy's Award for his work in Shanghai Express. First of a series of eight pictures being made at Fox studios by an individual producing unit under Paramount's onetime Vice President Jesse Lasky, Zoo in Budapest should excite interest in forthcoming Lasky productions, of which The Warrior's Husband, Berkeley Square and a picture by Preston Sturges, to be called The Power & the Glory, have been announced. During the manufacture of Zoo in Budapest, the Fox studio in Hollywood contained the third largest menagerie in the U. S. The animal most amenable to direction...
When Spokesman Smith marched in before the seven R. F. C. directors, out in the corridor gathered dozens of chattering clerks, stenographers, typists and underlings, to glimpse the "Happy Warrior." In the door they found a peek-hole through which they watched him pound the board table, wave his cigar, shake his greying head. Cried Al Smith angrily: "The R.F.C. can act like a suspicious banker with two glass eyes or it can take up its social responsibilities and put men to work...
...furtively conducted, there are no precise statistics on the sport. Cockers estimate that 1,000 mains are held in the U. S. every year, that wagers, purses and admission fees amount to more than $5,000,000 per year. Three cockfighting periodicals-Grit and Steel, Game Fowl News, Feathered Warrior-have a combined circulation of about 15,000. Second-rate gamecocks can be bought for $20 and more. First-rate gamecocks are given away or stolen, almost never sold...
What a Prussian officer was a Japanese officer is-only much more so, according to recent statements by War Minister Araki which reached the U. S. last week. Only Japanese soldiers and officers, he declared, are denied by their "Way of the Warrior" or military code any possibility of surrendering to the enemy and continuing to live thereafter. If captured, even after being knocked unconscious (as was famed Japanese Major Koga at Shanghai last year), a member of the Japanese Army must commit suicide (as Major Koga...
This concept of peace & order in "The Way of the Perfect Emperor" and in "The Way of the Warrior," Lieut.-General Araki sometimes abbreviates by the term "Japanism," urges Japan's representatives abroad to explain and spread its gospel. Best explanation so far is that of Japanese Delegate to the League of Nations Yosuke Matsuoka, who represents Japan in Geneva this week and recently declared: "Japan can offer spirituality to America and to the entire Western world. . . . Japanism is a world communism of moral responsibility, ideals, obligations and honor, unlimited by time, unbounded by distance or area and irrespective...