Word: yen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese Cinemogul Yen is not given to Hollywood hyperbole like "sensational" and "terrific." When he first signed the slinky, unknown actress Li Lihua, he told his friends simply: "I am setting out a beautiful tree that money drops from." He was right. Li's first movie packed them in. Last week her latest, The Barber Takes a Wife (TIME, Aug. 4), was breaking all Shanghai box-office records, giving every promise of being the biggest cinematic smash China had ever seen...
...somehow survives years & years of dull quarrels, lots of showy New Zealand background, one of the jolliest earthquakes ever filmed, a rip-roaring attack by Hollywood Maoris (who all seem to be named "Hemo"), and the limited advances, with flaring nostrils, of Mr. Heflin, who cherishes quite a yen for his business partner's wife...
Partial Compliance. Customers seemed to develop a sudden and irascible yen for meat on Tuesday and eggs on Thursday; when refused, dozens stomped out to go elsewhere. When the average restaurant owner heard that his competitor was serving eggs on an eggless morning, he usually rolled his eyes, lifted his hands and did likewise. A crafty minority solved the problem by asking customers not to order forbidden foods and looking patriotically askance while serving those...
...last, at a plenary session of the Kuomintang's Central Executive Committee, the girls found listeners. "I can't speak," said lissome Meng Yen, her eyes moist with emotion. "I can only use my tears to express my feelings...
...story really softens one's heart," wrote one susceptible newsman as Yen's colleagues began circulating a petition to Mme. Chiang. But it was all hopeless. The deadline remained unchanged. Said Fang Chih, Kuomintang leader: "I think no patriotic man or woman wants to embrace each other under soft lights. . . . Dancing girls could be trained to acquire useful talents in reconstructing the country and wiping out bandits...