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Lots about vaudeville singer Jue Quon Tai: softfilm.blogspot.com/2009/08/jue-quon-tai-chinese-prince... softfilm.blogspot.com/2009/08/jue-quon-tai-on-stage-door-... softfilm.blogspot.com/2010/07/jue-quon-tai-pretty-and-pan... Also mentioned here: www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/faculty/henryyu/APACHP/teache... She married director Harry Lachman in France, 1938; lived in Beverly Hills; was widowed in 1975, and died in 1991. www.imdb.com/name/nm0480046/bio

Her wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Chennault

The lady was Madame Chiang K S.

THanks!

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek was China's Eternal First Lady en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soong_May-ling

Please reconsider retitling this photo to spell out Japanese. The abbreviation chosen is offensive to many and reverts to the dismissive terminology used during WWII and is out of place in this day and age.

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I agree, "Jap" is a very insensitive, unkind, and uneducated way to describe a Japanese person. It's commonly used to express disrespectfulness, hatefulness or displeasure towards a person because he/she is a Japanese. It was obviously spelled out on the photo itself, and you weren't pressed for space, so was it necessary to abbreviate like so? If you insist on abbreviating, please use the internationally accepted abbreviation, "JP", or presenting the complete spelling.

also here:

www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3477962069/
www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3295495556/
www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2162728775/

Indeed, this is well documented as negative in standard English usage, and should not be used as such in this context. Please change it.

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jap

jap
2 entries found.

1. Jap
2. JAP


Main Entry:
Jap Listen to the pronunciation of Jap
Pronunciation:
\ˈjap\
Function:
noun or adjective
Date:
1886

usually disparaging : japanese

Thanks for understanding that no offense is intended. We retain the original title of a photograph as part of preserving the historical record. The Bain News Service photo titles are available from several sources—typed in the set of caption cards consulted while making the scans, hand-written on an older set of cards, and etched on the negatives themselves. Abbreviated spellings are common in each source, but, in this case, the sources differ. Transcribing the fuller title directly from the negative provides more information, and that source is now used.