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...outcome of Madeleine's getting started on the wrong side. To please her flabby, moribund father (Porter Hall), she agrees, in bitter conflict with the latent notability, in her, to lure Gary and his belt full of the people's money into the grasping yellow hands of General Yang, war lord and fiendish oppressor of some unnamed Chinese province. Before this unhappy state of affairs is set aright by a drunken man's knife plunged into the general's belly just before the crack of dawn, pretty faces have to be slapped, bullets to fly, traitors to be betrayed, instruments...
...with money to buy guns for the peasants' revolt, O'Hara lets himself be diverted from his purpose by a pretty girl (Madeleine Carroll) who persuades him to travel by train instead of plane. When this turns out to be part of a plot by War Lord Yang (Akim Tamiroff) to hold up the train, get the money for himself, a four-way struggle develops. The girl's father (Porter Hall), sent by Yang to deliver the money to his agent in Shanghai, plans instead to abscond with it. A Shanghai barfly sniffs out the plan, demands...
...that with which Playwright Odets had obviously acquired Hollywood's technique. Directed in somewhat over-ostentatious style by Lewis Milestone, The General Died at Dawn remains a first rate melodrama, vividly penned, performed and photographed. Good shot: a reporter (Novelist John O'Hara) getting credentials from General Yang by promising to run his story on the front page...
...suggestion was promptly met with applause, a motion was proposed and passed unanimously. Dr. Liu was elected president. Tingsheng S. Wei '16, vice-president, and M. T. Yang secretary and treasurer. Professor Holcombe and Es V. Soong '15, ex-minister of finance, were honored with the positions of honorary presidents...
...Chinese are masters of the art of living. It's as much their religion as their belief in the dualistic animism of the universe. Man is made up of two souls: "Yang" a "good soul"; "Vin" the soul of darkness and evil. No harm comes to a good man; that's the way the universe is constituted. With this belief and the worship for the dead the Chinese manage to live a life tranquil and indifferent to the "ways of the world". Strength of character more than strength of mind; knowledge is important as it affects the character...