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...Unable to arrest Mr. Yin, General Shang announced that he blamed himself entirely for everything and in deepest shame would resign "because of illness contracted from stove- gas in my residence." Not to be put off with stove-gas, Generalissimo Chiang meanwhile wired from Nanking asking goat-bearded General Sung Cheh-yuan, who is supposed to be the real ruler of Hopei and Chahar Provinces, to maintain some kind of Nanking authority in North China by accepting the title of "Pacification Commissioner." This honor General Sung, who looks and knows how to act the part of a traditional hoary Chinese...
...Soprano Pons's triumphant début. Taking the usual course for men in his plight, he makes a scene voicing his self-pity as a failure, disappears. Miss Pons, thoroughly bored with lonely success, finds him driving a taxi, turns his bad opera into good musicomedy. Agreeably sung by Lily Pons are four songs by Jerome Kern, including a waltz called I Dream Too Much, Little Jockey on the Carrousel and I've Got Love which the diva has described as a " 'ot song, very 'ot." The picture also introduces blandly comic Eric Blore...
Last week Japan and the Nanking Government angled for the war lords of North China with counter bribes, appeals and threats. Japan appeared to land two at once. Sung Cheh-yuan, Chinese commandant of the Peiping and Tientsin garrisons, and Yin Ju-keng, commissioner of the demilitarized zone in North China, who obligingly sent out a general telegram demanding autonomy for North China. Doubtful Japanese catches were Chahar's Governor Hsiao Chen-yung and Suiyuan's Governor Fu Tso-yi. The Chinese Government meanwhile appeared to land Shang Chen, Governor of Hopei. It went on angling hopefully...
Meanwhile, however, Frances Langford has sung several, songs and lots of chorus girls have danced all over a roof-garden. Jack Benny has made nasty remarks in his newspaper column, and Buddy Ebsen has danced and clowned and been generally very pleasant...
...Harvard men, D. E. Humez '38 and B. C. Riggs '37, have been selected as soloists for the "Sea Chanties" which appear on the program. In "Glorious Apollo," by Webbe, which is sung jointly by both clubs, the soloists will be Yale...