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Except in case of 100% natural disasters such as earthquakes & typhoons, Japanese ethics demand that when things go radically wrong in the Empire someone should voluntarily make himself the scapegoat. Last week Tokyo censors released the news that last year 6,900 Japanese had to be arrested as "Communist suspects." Things have gone so wrong that the Reds seized were found to include young men & women of high Tokyo society: three daughters of millionaires, the daughters of a peer and a fashionable surgeon, several sons of generals and bankers, a socialite clerk of the Foreign Office, six junior naval officers...
Then, in 1930, the apotheosis of the Coward comedies, Private Lives, appeared. All the old tricks were brought to shining perfection in a play which related the high-jinx of a divorced couple who found themselves on respective second honeymoons with decidedly the wrong people. The divorced couple were impersonated by Mr. Coward and the little girl from Miss Conti's, Gertrude Lawrence of the comely back. The playwright still stuck to stichomythy, a tendency reflected in last week's production. Some of his dialog was as bitter and bright as Alice in Wonderland...
Doubtless The Bitter Tea of General Yen will distress cinemaddicts who cherish the illusion that under Tsar Hays the cinema is committed to upholding Occidental theories of right and wrong. Aside from being morally subversive and eloquently antiChristian, it is not an unusual, although it is an intelligent, production. It suffers from lethargic pace, a lack of action elsewhere than in highly atmospheric battle-scenes. Barbara Stanwyck is satisfactory as Megan Davis but the most noteworthy female member of the cast is Toshia Mori, a sloe-eyed Japanese girl whom Director Frank Capra discovered in a Los Angeles curio shop...
This is one of those novels of which Mr. Rupert Hughes would say, as he did in his introduction to "Babbitt," that the author has so portrayed his subject that the reader says: "There, but for the grace of God, go I." Of course this is utterly wrong, for no reader identifies himself with the hero-cad to that degree, nor is the hero, who is as mentally inert as either of these, ever mirrored from life; vile cads and pure heroes do not occur full-blown in life. The characterization strikes one as incomplete and unreal for that very...
...requires, and for that reason develops, maturity and interest. At present it is badly cramped by course requirements. These courses tend to prolong an immature and perfunctory attitude and seem to me thoroughly at odds with the spirit of tutorial work. A good deal of what is wrong and inadequate with the tutorial system is due to the fact that it is regarded as being merely an afterthought and distinctly secondary to the requirement of course work...