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...certain young Chinese woman as handy girl around his studio. Buyers of obscene postcards were attracted by her looks. She was passed up to Mr. Henry Pu Yi and on to the Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang who then ruled Manchuria. Meanwhile she was fast becoming famed Miss Butterfly Wu of China's Hollywood. One night, after the Young Marshal had given orders that he was not to be disturbed in Miss Wu's theatre, his frantic Chinese officers discovered that Japanese troops were attempting to seize his capital, that the keys of the Chinese arsenal were...
Going into the game overconfident, the Varsity was repulsed at the very outset by a field goal in the first minute of play by Billy Wu, son of the Mayor of Shanghal. Wu and Captain Garth were the sparkplugs of the M.I.T. outfit, with Garth accounting for six field goals...
HARVARD M. I. T. Shirk, r.f. 1.g., Denton Lavietes, 1.f. r.g., Wu Lowman, c. c., Lippitt White, r.g. 1.f., Kangas Dampeer, 1.g. r.f., Garth...
...Japanese troops, last week "captured" Tangku, port of Tientsin. If a renowned Chinese Marshal with a name the world knows had enjoyed the same success it would have been psychologically much greater. At week's end cables from Tientsin announced that the great "Scholar War Lord," Marshal Wu Pei-fu, had agreed to end eight years of erudite and pious seclusion in a Buddhist monastery to rule North China...
...Chinese militarists who for years have sat uneasy saddles, galloping for & against Japan but galloping chiefly for themselves, are in for a new regime at Peiping with every trapping of intellectual subtlety and elegance. Today Chinese students have less use for either than they had in the days when Wu Pei-fu was mastering scholarship and the composition of fragile poems on expensive paper with a jade-handled ink brush...