Word: kimiko
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...Miss Kimiko." How far things had gone was illustrated by a telephone conversation on Nov. 27 between Kurusu and Kumaicho Yamamoto, head of the American section of the Jap Foreign Office. The two men used a voice code in which "Miss Umeko" referred to Secretary Hull and "Miss Kimiko" to President Roosevelt. The term "matrimonial question" meant the negotiations in Washington, and talk of childbirth meant that a crisis was at hand. All this was clear to the U.S. agents who had tapped the Japs' wires; the U.S., in peace as well as war, had all the Jap signal...
...Kimiko (Photographic Chemical Laboratories) is the first Japanese talking picture to be exhibited in the U. S. Shown last week at Manhattan's Filmarte Theatre, which specializes in importations, its net effect was to bore ordinary cinemaddicts, please amateurs of the curious and reassure Hollywood producers that Japan's prolific cinema industry is not a serious menace. Story of Kimiko concerns a domestic crisis in the up-to-date Yamamoto family. Thinking to arrange a reconciliation between her mother, Etsuko Yamamoto, with whom she lives, and her father, Shunsaku Yamamoto, who long ago ran off with a geisha...