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This year the Romberg romance has been laid in French Indo-China by Librettists Oscar Hammerstein II and Frank Mandel. In this comparatively virgin territory a young woman (Charlotte Lansing) weds a young man (William Williams) although his upstanding brother (J. Harold Murray) is also in love with her. Unfortunately, Actor Williams succumbs to the swimming hips of a dancing girl (Ahi). The musical journey leads to Paris, where Actress Lansing goes from good to bad, then to Marseilles, where she goes from bad to worse. Honest Actor Murray, of course, finally finds, redeems...
East Wind's velocity is exceedingly low except for the sporadic appearance of a funnyman named Joe Penner. Mr. Penner bounces around, ogles like a monstrous, puckish infant. He sells a bleached elephant to some unsuspecting Indo-Chinese, is thereafter terrorized by the victims of his chicane...
Bamboo whips, bayonets, machine guns and the guillotine were not enough. As a final effort Minister of the Colonies Paul Reynaud was in Hanoi last week to do what he could to settle the growing unrest in French Indo-China...
...notion of civilizing his subjects, the French thesis is that they must interfere as little as possible with the native life in their colonies. The French go-native system has worked extremely well in Tunis and Morocco, badly in Syria, and has now run into trouble in French Indo-China...
...bundle of incriminating documents to French authorities. After studying this batch of evidence the French Colonial Office realized that the guillotine may not have been the ideal cure. Minister of the Colonies Paul Reynaud left his desk in Paris and hurried East for four months. While he is in Indo-China beheadings will be suspended. Said a spokesman for Paul Reynaud, "M. Le Ministre will examine sympathetically native grievances...