Word: channings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charlie Chan in Egypt (Fox) exhibits the hero of Hollywood's most durable saga investigating a murder case in Luxor where an archeologist has been shot, battered and mummified. When Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) arrives on the scene, he promptly outlines his methods with a proverb: "Insignificant molehill sometimes more worthy of notice than conspicuous mountain." Aided by a dusky retainer and the fiance of the deceased archeologist's lovely daughter (Pat Paterson), he sets about selecting the guilty party from a group of suspects that include an Egyptian butler, a bad-tempered doctor, a druggist, an amiable...
...Yorkers jumped to an early offensive, and the combination of heavier forwards and hard-running backs gave James the Chan e to score. Holton made the kick good, giving New York a 5-0 lead. It was not until Duffus had scored after a sideline run and Holton had again added the points that Harvard retaliated with a score by Babbitt. The second half saw Harvard putting on the pressure to stop the invaders, while Meiklejohn added three points to the Crimson score by making good a penalty kick...
University: "Biography of a Bachelor Girl," 3.25, 6.25, 9.25. "Charlie Chan in Paris...
...Charlie Chan in Paris," with Warner Oland and a mediocre supporting cast, pulls itself up by the bootstraps from the sludge of the usual detective thriller by a feeble tug. Replete with the Paramount Paris sower set, the Paramount Paris hotels, policemen and nightclubs, the plot alone has the virtue of making this an entertaining picture, Typical shots--a lame masked man peeking over window ledges. A gloved hand poking the muzzle of a gun through a crack in a door, a spurt of flame, a clutched hand, female screams . . . certainly not the equal of the immortal "Thin...
...Shakespearean roles which ended when he made his cinema debut in Jewels of the Madonna, with Theda Bara (1917). Thereafter he played in serials like The Violet Diamond of Daroon. His career as a Chinese started when he played Charlie Yong in East Is West (1922). For his first Chan picture he got $12,500. Now he gets $100,000 for three in a row. In private, although he has lately taken to coining Chinese proverbs, Warner Oland has few Oriental characteristics. He has never visited China, knows no Chinese except those connected with the cinema. Feeble as a detective...