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Fighting in China began last fortnight in the southwestern suburbs of Peiping between Japanese troops engaged in war games and the Chinese forces of General Sung Cheh-yuan (TIME, July 19). In a series of pitched battles at historic Marco Polo Bridge and among the hamlets clustered about Peiping, Chinese gave a spirited account of themselves, and last week in picturesquely worded communiques they "repulsed the barbarians who tried to cut off our garrison and airport at Nan-Yuan, driving them off with our broad-swords." During this engagement two small Japanese shells burst just inside Peiping's Yungting...
Japanese troop trains by this time were arriving at Tientsin although Chinese troops of General Sung were mobilizing there simultaneously. In the same railway station one could see Japanese soldiers squatting in their trains on one railway siding while on another siding squatted Chinese troops. Japanese trains had Japanese engineers, crews and switchmen...
...Suiyuan, Shansi and Shantung were concerned and returned to Japan in semi-disgrace. His intrigue had succeeded, however, in bringing into semi-autonomous existence a Chinese regime more or less under Japan's thumb which is now governing Hopei and Chahar. An able, ambiguous and shrewd Chinese, General Sung Cneh-yuan, heads this regime known as the "Hopei-Chahar Political Council," and it was his troops who last week fought with valiant "broadswords" in obscure villages and lolled about in Tientsin railway stations...
Singing Marine (Warner Bros.). Having successfully sung his way through West Point and Annapolis in previous films, Dick Powell now tries his voice on the U. S. Marine Corps. As a shy, likable Arkansas rookie he is drafted for a weenie roast on the beach at San Diego, innocently sings the leathernecks' sweethearts into acquiescence. For this patriotic service he is rewarded with a trip to Manhattan and a radio tryout on what is obviously Major Bowes's amateur hour. Managed by Aeneas Phinney (Hugh Herbert), he embarks upon a U. S. radio career as the "Singing Marine...
Gardner Middlebrook '38, manager of the Glee Club estimated that this Class Day Concert will be the five hundredth concert which the club has given since its reorganization in 1919. Since then it has sung from St. Louis, Missouri, to Venice, Italy; from Montreal to Washington, D. C. Its audiences range from street urchins to rulers of nations. Highlight of every spring is the joint rendition of "St. Mathews Passion" with the Radcliffe Glee Club and the Boston Symphony Orchestra...