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...Elephantiasis of the ego. The star tenor tends to swagger in company as well as on stage; he is quite sure that women have a yen for him-and so, usually, is his wife. He lords it over his colleagues and is inclined to feel that he need not rehearse with the rest of the cast. Like most singers, he thinks he is better than the impresario does, and demands starring roles too early in his career...
...students and other transient Chinese entering the U.S. through Seattle and nearby Victoria, B.C. "We saw we were running the country's reception room," says Clinton S. Harley, the owner of a Seattle cemetery. People in China saw it, too. As long ago as 1918, Dr. Hsin Yen, who had been Education Minister in the last days of the Manchu dynasty, noted that "Seattle is becoming a household word for fairness and friendliness...
...Lively Arts. In Tokyo, Commercial Artist Shigenari Niwa was arrested on charges of counterfeiting more than 2,000 thousand-yen ($2.78) notes, explained that he had designed them for a scene in a film, added sadly: "They were so good, it seemed a shame to waste them on a movie...
...anyone has a yen to photograph Miss Radcliffe candidates, or anything else for that matter, he will enjoy the company of equally dedicated artists in the CRIMSON's photo board competition...
...above all Japan's face. There is a hotel proprietress who uncomprehendingly scalds him in the bath ("Honorable tepid bath . . . could not have been more than 113°''). There is a geisha who saves the hotel's honor by sacrificing her own ("I whispered only these words: seventy-eight yen fifty . . . It was the price of Kodak No. 3A. anastigmatic lens, shutter for both time and instantaneous exposures"). Time has retouched Author Raucat's Japan without cropping any essentials in his cultural snapshots. Few writers have probed more skillfully behind the deep bow and the polite smile for that...