Chinese Perplexed By American Humor
J P McEvoy recalls meeting Dr Lin Yutang in Shanghai after his book My Country and My People hit the United States. He muses on why Lin should visit America to show a Chinese perspective rather than Hollywood typecasting. Lin arrives in Hollywood with his wife and three daughters who resemble toy department figures.
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J. P. McEvoy
Dr. Lin
Yutang
Shanghai
United States
America
Hollywood
Toy Department
Dinner with comic legends ends in awkward humor
The narrator hosts Dr. Lin with Gracie Allen Burns Marx Butterworths and Groucho Marx for a dinner of laughs and misreads. Conversations drift from babies to tutoring as the group trades stories while the narrator braves an uneasy atmosphere and caps the scene noting Americans’ vast earnings.
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Mickey Mouse
Mrs. Lin
Dr. Lin
Paramount Studio
Jack Onakie
Jack Benny
Gracie Allen
George Burns
Groucho Marx
Charlie Butterworth
Butterworths
Dalton
Colorado to buy bonds for army hospital train
Colorado counties cities and non commercial groups urged to buy $135 000 in extra war bonds during December to fund an Army hospital train. The 10 car mobile unit will hold 96 wounded men and include six ward cars a utility dining and pharmacy car and an officers car.
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Denver
Col. P
Uncle Sam
Wine price ceiling hits Mendoza hotels in Argentina
In Mendoza Argentina the government imposes a 30 percent price cap on wine, aiming to curb 100 percent profit margins at certain hotels. The measure follows reports of high hotel wine prices hurting local demand for the province’s main product.
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Mendoza
Argentina
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Groucho
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Cerity
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Army Hospital
Beauty Mart
Mrs. Jennie Coffee
Aline Salano
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Chevrolet Service
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