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Object of a waif like Ching-Ching, as seasoned child cinemaddicts are well aware, is to find rich and personable parents to adopt her. Randall is unmarried and the only eligible girl on board, Susan Parker (Alice Faye), is already engaged and traveling with her future mother-in-law. This does not dishearten Ching-Ching. She shows Randall and his valet (Arthur Treacher) how to sing a lullaby, goes sightseeing in Hongkong and voices a few proverbs, which detective picture addicts will recognize as from the Chanese. Sample: "A child without parents is like a ship without a rudder." When...
Stowaway exhibits Shirley Temple as Ching-Ching, an exiled waif, hopping around Shanghai and looking cut for chances. Her missionary parents have been killed by outlaws and she is on the town. When it starts raining. Ching-Ching crawls into the rumble seat of a roadster, closes the top. The roadster, which belongs to a playboy named Tommy Randall (Robert Young), goes aboard a ship bound for San Francisco...
...York where he encounters a jealous little cousin (Marilyn Knowlden). a kindly butler (Charles Butterworth ) and a tyrannical old lady (May Robson) who refuses to believe she is his grandmother until a rendering of a Stephen Foster chorus prompts her to go South and investigate. Compared on points, Waif Ching-Ching comes out considerably ahead of Waif Ainsworth. Compared as pictures, Stowaway comes out ahead of Rainbow on the River, which is still considerably above average for its genre. Good shot: small Ainsworth, grudgingly allowed to attend his cousin's birthday party, fascinating her guests with his cage...
...Japanese occupation spread unopposed, like a ripple slowly widening out toward Peiping and Tientsin, consternation reigned in Nanking, capital of the Chinese Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek and Premier Wang Ching-wei who was recently winged by a would-be Chinese assassin (TIME, Nov. 11). Mr. Wang, hospitalized at Shanghai, had recovered sufficiently to set out for Nanking. On the way a plot to assassinate him was discovered. He abruptly resigned last week as Premier, hoping that Chinese patriots who have called him "pro-Japanese" will now let him alone...
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