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...August 1929; the ancient Asia which burned and sank while carrying Moslem pilgrims to Mecca (TIME, June 2, 1930); and the brand new Georges Philippar, burned and sunk at sea last May with a loss of 52 lives while returning from her maiden voyage to the Orient. Since French Indo-Chinese Communists had openly threatened the Georges Philippar, suspicion of incendiarism was reasonable, but the French Government, though it investigated, has kept all details a state secret...
...Dust (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a rowdy exposition of bed manners on a rubber plantation back of Saigon, French Indo-China. In the persons of Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, impersonating a harlot and a lusty planter, two predatory carnivores are brought together, happily rend each other...
...balls. Not for nothing has 19-year-old Emperor Bao Dai spent half his life in Paris, coached by Frenchmen to rule Annam as France directs. On his return to Hue the perfectly drilled Emperor replied in rapid, flawless French to greetings voiced by the real ruler of French Indo-China, white-whiskered, punctilious Governor General Pierre Pasquier...
Mournfully over a long drink Prince Svasti said: "The King agreed to the present temporary constitution, which makes him a puppet, solely to prevent bloodshed. We are a buffer state between French Indo-China and British Burma. Civil war in Siam would mean that both the French and English would intervene, ostensibly to protect their nationals. That would be the end of Siam...
...Harlow had cause to wonder whether her career in cinema would be destroyed. But without Jean Harlow, work on her new film could not proceed for long. A week after Paul Bern's death, she made herself up as a "siren," went to work in Red Dust, an Indo-Chinese film...