People: Not-So-Poor Butterfly

Back from the dead in the great romantic tradition last week came China's glamorous black-banged Butterfly Wu, the fragile cinemactress but durable adventuress, who was supposedly killed by flying shrapnel in the siege of Hong Kong last January. Wu-wooers were relieved: they had feared that a fabulously Asiatic career had ended. The Butterfly's beauty and talent had moved her on & up 1) from the studio of a maker of obscene postcards, 2) to the arms of Henry Pu-yi, stooge ruler of Manchukuo, 3) to the arms of Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang, onetime overlord...

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