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...really and truly to believe that their Emperor is the "Son of Heaven," the lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess and himself genuinely divine. Whether they believe it or not, Japanese statesmen have to act as though they believed that the Emperor is all-wise, can no more do wrong than can Jehovah. This being so, Japanese who oppose the London Naval Treaty became absolutely boiling mad last week when Baron Shidehara in defending the Treaty said: "Well, do you suppose the Emperor would have signed it if it was not good...
...plot smells of melodrama; the honest devotee of the public had gone too far and tread on the wrong person's toes. Machination followed recrimination and Mr. Kresel has been found wanting. Of course he may be guilty. Somehow, the courageous actions and brief plea for public confidence of a man who is held for circumstances over which he seemingly had no control make a continuous pattern with his actions in the past. And the past, as someone naively remarked--it was not Mr. Kresel--is the judge of the present...
...industrialist as well as artist. Chaplin finances his own pictures and shrewdly supervises their sale and distribution. He writes them, casts them, directs them. He works by mood. He shoots thousands upon thousands of feet of film, saving perhaps 50 feet that he feels is right. When things go wrong he stops work and plays tennis. Sometimes he works all night. He listens to a great lot of advice, disregards most of it. Sometimes his spasmodic working habits bewilder his subordinates. To ease their minds he has instructed a special studio watchman to keep a lookout...
...that recommends it, for the dialog is inept and the story of the Mystery Ship sent out as decoy for a German submarine and the beautiful German spy who loves a U. S. officer but sees him kill her brother in the course of duty, gets laughs in the wrong places. There is no one of note in the cast. Best shot: sinking...
...knows Mrs. Besant as sponsor of Jiddu Krishnamurti, much-touted Theosophist Messiah, who recently went back on his backers by announcing that organization is wrong, individuality best. An apocryphal story (which Biographer Williams does not include) tells how Mrs. Besant tried to get Krishnamurti into Oxford. Applying first to the Warden of New College (the late famed Canon William Archibald Spooner), she described her charge as an incarnation of God. The Warden blenched, categorically refused to admit such a Presence, which might prove embarrassing to the other undergraduates. The Master of Balliol shook his head regretfully, said they...