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...display went a 4th-Century Sasanian palace hall, the like of which does not exist even in its native Persia; a mandapam (pillared hall) from a Vishnu temple which Philadelphia Socialite Adeline Pepper Gibson spirited out of India by junk in 1912; a lofty Ming hall from Peking, "the finest single architectural unit ever to leave China"; a dozen other galleries. All 15 were crowded with a superb collection of Oriental art that ranged from Persian rugs to Japanese prints...
...manager. Characteristic art forms of successive Chinese dynasties were each represented by top-notch pieces. Bronzes of the Shang Dynasty (1766 B.C.-1122 B.C.), green with age, included the earliest known oil lamp. Other high lights: spirited pottery horses and camels of the T'ang Dynasty, Sung paintings, Ming porcelain. Since most good jade carving is fairly modern, Gump's specialty plays only a small part in the show. But privileged visitors could also see Gump's famed Jade Room, which has goddesses, screens, rings, roosters, bowls of flowers in different colors of jade, a translucent green...
...tinsel and crepe, glistening with Chinese lanterns, borne aloft and twisted by six men. Soon Chungking's elite-cabinet ministers, generals, ambassadors, lovely ladies-linked themselves onto the dragon's hindquarters and went into a stamping, winding, lurching dragon dance exactly like those of the antique Ming and Tang and Han dynasties...
...highly impatient to have Nanking captured last week on a mystic date particularly gratifying to the Son of Heaven, namely the 12th Day of the 12th Month of the 12th Year of His Imperial Majesty's reign which is known as Showa or "Light and Peace." The ancient Ming walls of Nanking, 40 ft. high and 30 ft. thick, stoutly defended last week, made it impossible to do more on 12-12-12 than breach the walls at two places, hoist the Japanese flag prematurely...
Home Politics. To the U. S. public, China is symbolized by Confucius, Ming vases, heroic missionaries, clean shirts and Charlie Chan. Japan means harakiri, imperialism, post cards of Fujiyama, and the Yellow Peril. That Franklin Roosevelt had correctly gauged public psychology in giving a cue to all good citizens that the time had come when moral indignation need no longer be suppressed appeared from, the swift reaction to his speech. Europe naturally was pleased but the U. S. press also produced more words of approval, some enthusiastic and some tempered, than have greeted any Roosevelt step in many a month...