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...could scarcely have been handled better. The MARCH OF TIME'S Cameraman Harrison Forman, an aviator, explorer and author just down from Tibet, was sitting inside the Cathay when the terrifying explosion took place. The Hearst News of the Day's, Shanghai man, a daredevil called "Newsreel" Wong, was behind the counter of his camera shop, two blocks away. Universal's, George Krainukov, who had just had his camera shot out of his hand in the Chinese evacuation of Peiping, was also almost within hailing distance of the tragedy. As a consequence, the films these three...
...Wong, a mandarin of much potency and some parts, was considerably dismayed when he awoke one morning to find his pigtail gone. A hastily-convened assembly of wise men was not much help, passed the buck to a soothsayer. This worthy declared that within three days a mendicant would appear at the city gates who would make all clear. In due time the mendicant appeared, turned out to be a professional expresser of public apologies and an old drunk into the bargain. Luckily for himself he had with him his granddaughter, Hwa-che, who knew all about solving crimes from...
...observers credited China with definite air superiority, and General Mao Peng-tsou, field commander of the air force, gave to the world the names of China's first air heroes: Lieutenant Loi Chong, 23, credited with shooting down four Japanese light bombers in one morning; Lieutenant Wong Sun-sui, age unknown, credited with shooting down two twin-motored bombers near Nanking. Both men were trained in the U. S., used U. S.-built planes. Said Lieutenant Wong: ''American-made pursuit planes can easily outrun Japanese bombers. Shooting them down is comparatively easy because Japanese pilots seem...
Under a bright Hawaiian moon, dainty Anna May Wong put out to sea one night last week in a pineapple barge. Embarked on neither a pleasure jaunt nor a cinema stunt, Actress Wong and 446 fellow passengers were en route to the U. S. For three weeks, they had been stranded in Honolulu by the shipping strike (TIME, Nov. 23). A few tourists, including a California man and an Australian woman who met and married in the interim, had enjoyed their isolation. But most were glad to be towed in the pineapple barge last week, two miles...
...English producers fell down badly in the matter of sound recording and partly to the mistake of its U. S. director, J. Walter Ruben, in his apparent supposition that lethargic pace was the proper cinema equivalent of Author Hergesheimer's peculiar prose style. As Taou Yuen, Anna May Wong, who last year appeared in an English screen version of Chu Chin Chow, gives a performance so admirable that it may serve to remind Hollywood producers that it is high time she returned for good...