Columnist’s Face Saved at Low Cost
TOKYO — In today’s lesson, boys and girls, we will turn our rapt attention to the strange Japanese preoccupation with “saving face.”
All we’ve known about it in the past, of course, is what we’ve learned from the highly unreliable school of the American movie.
From the dim, distant days of the silent pictures up to the present era of the wide screen, we’ve watched countless Japanese bad guys (all of whom were Sessue Hayakawa) behave atrociously through every reel, but the last.
In the final scene, after being properly embarrassed by defeat at the hands of the hero, they would invariably take, what was for them, the easy way out by committing hara-kiri. Continue reading
The girls in classified are a little dewy-eyed today over a Public Announcement ad. It states simply, “Happy birthday, pretty Beverly.” But there’s more to it than that.
Above, Police Chief James Davis turns over a list of more than 7,800 people who have received honorary badges from the Los Angeles Police Department. Recipients include Shirley Temple, Clark Gable, Louis B. Mayer, Joe E. Brown, King Vidor, Bela Lugosi and Leo Carrillo.
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