Word: wong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Devi Dja and her group of 20-odd mum, placid-faced little Balinese landed in Manhattan. With them was Prince Raden Waloejo, cousin of Java's reigning sultan, himself a pretty good dancer of the Wajang-Wong (ancient Balinese national epic). Also in the troupe were nine gamelan musicians with queer gongs and xylophones, a special Balinese cook to home-cook rice and fish, Devi Dja's younger (18) sister Devi Emah with her ten-months-old baby...
...King of Chinatown" is passable but leaves one more convinced than ever that a good feature picture demands no double bill. It is a step down from Miss Colbert to Auna May Wong, and it washes the good taste from one's mouth...
Cheong yin Wong is a 27-year-old Chinese who is doing graduate work in experimental botany at Michigan State College. Last week his mentors announced that Cheong had produced seedless watermelons. He did it by removing the male elements of the flower from the vine before pollination could take place, treating the female with growth-stimulating chemicals. Some of his seedless melons are pear-shaped...
...Wong, Detective (Monogram). First of a new series of detective melodramas in which the hero can be distinguished from other Oriental sleuths now functioning in cinema by the facts that he: 1) sometimes admits being puzzled, and 2) is played by Boris Karloff with reconditioned eyebrows...
...Cincinnati, a fleeing thug boarded the automobile of 45-year-old Chinese Fred Wong, told him to step on it. Wong would not go against a red light, though the burglar beat him with the butt of his gun. Police captured the wrongdoer, congratulated Wong. Wong said sheepishly: "I was afraid of being arrested for crashing a light...