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...Dragon Seed (Walter Huston, Katharine Hepburn; TIME, July...
...Dragon Seed (M.G.M.) is a kind of slant-eyed North Star (TIME, Nov. 8). A two-and-a-half-hour picturization of Pearl Buck's best-selling novel (TIME, Jan. 26, 1942) about China at war. Often awkward and pretentious, it nevertheless has moments of moral and dramatic grandeur...
Better to Worse. But the Army knew well what kind of a dragon it had by the tail. Army officials could recall the days after World War I when brooding Negroes came back from overseas. Then there had been race riots all around the country; in Washington 2,000 troops had to be called out to restore order. The Negro soldier today, called upon to fight and on occasion to die for a democracy he is not fully allowed to enjoy, is still an unhappy and embittered...
...reflected China's blend of ricksha and airplane civilizations. Educated in the U.S. (A.B., Oberlin; M.A., Yale), a connoisseur of modernisms, he clings to the chopsticks of his ancestors, entertains New Year's guests with a stamping, lurching, conga-like version of a 14th-Century Ming dynasty dragon dance. His great power in China is built on modern chain stores, banks, cotton mills, and mining, a supermodern political machine, and a skillful playing of the ancient Chinese game of family politics. Himself the direct descendant of Confucius (75th generation), Dr. Kung married the eldest of the three famed...
...featured Linda had clerked in a store, ushered in a cinema, shipped as hairdresser on Red Star liners; how Antonio had bought her a passage home instead of an engagement ring, how her sister had given her, as part of her trousseau, the yellow silk pajamas with the green dragon embroidered on the back...