Word: hongkong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown's contract depended upon this picture or upon any other picture in which he has appeared, it would be safe to predict that he will be given his release from Hollywood and a one-way ticket to Hongkong, but the incredible youth apparently writes himself enough fan mail to make it appear that some persons consider him an actor, though God knows that we don't As usual, he strikes the unhappy medium between Professor Merriman and Baby Leroy...
...world's all too numerous silver dollars-the Straits Dollar, the Hongkong Dollar, the Shanghai Dollar, the Mexican Dollar, the Sun Yat-sen Dollar, the Standard Chinese Dollar-the Canadian Government last week announced that it will add the George Dollar, first silver dollar in that Dominion. To make the George Dollar as different as possible from the old U. S. Dollar, Canada's mint will strike a coin only slightly larger in diameter than a 50?piece but nearly twice as thick. Doubtful whether Canadians really care for silver dollars, the Royal Canadian Mint will strike...
...Painted Veil (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Dr. Walter Fane (Herbert Marshall) goes to the door of his wife's bedroom in Hongkong, he finds it locked. On the hall table lies a polo helmet. From these two facts he knows that his Katrin (Greta Garbo) is sinning with a cool young legation attaché (George Brent). At dinner that night, Dr. Fane presents Katrin with a choice: she will leave with him for Mei-tan-fu, where cholera is epidemic, or she will marry the attach...
...Fane is busy treating cholera-stricken natives, she sits at home, listening to the babble of her Chinese maid who calls her "Missy" and a cockney resident named Waddington (Forrester Harvey). By the time the doctor has relented so far as to offer to send Katrin back to Hongkong, she has decided to stay in Mei-tan-fu as a nurse. Dr. Fane is wounded in a riot and at the same time the attaché arrives in Mei-tan-fu to see how Katrin is making out. She gives him a short answer and hurries to her husband...
...Fane's relations with her husband had remained as they were when she first arrived in Hongkong, hers would have been a loveless and ignoble marriage. Since it is nothing of the sort at the conclusion of The Painted Veil, the picture, despite the fact that Censor Joseph Breen gave it Certificate of Approval No. 395, can be considered an advertisement for adultery as a matrimonial cureall. In this respect it follows Somerset Maugham's shallow novel, from which it was adapted. In other respects, except that it lacks the rapid-fire beginning in which the two lovers...