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...second mortgage. Last week in Manhattan he hustled his lawyers over to the New York County register's office to have it recorded. No ordinary second mortgage, it was junior to a first mortgage of $200,000, was non-interest bearing, payable on demand, and was a lien on a conventional Fifth Avenue mansion...
...acting prevents, happily, the full realization of the chance for gross emotionalism. Such a background, of course, forms a perfect foil behind any genuine female charm, and Miss Helen Hayes takes full advantage of her chance. She is an unconvincing Chinese, but a superb mistress of the situation. Lien Wah's delicately expressive hands, and quaint self obliteration weave an incapable feminine charm through all the mess of uninteresting Oriental gore...
...cast and 2) an unhappy ending. In San Francisco, representatives of a Chinese revolutionist have pledged themselves to send him $100,000. To do this they decide to auction off their daughters for $25,000 each. Three of the daughters meet with mysterious misfortunes. The fourth and most beautiful, Lien Wha, persuades a rich Chinese gambler that she is worth the whole $100,000. This is most sad for brave Lien Wha; she is in love with a handsome young Chinese named Tom Lee. It is giving away no secret to explain that Tommy Lee turns...
...casting of The Son-Daughter, originally listed as a Joan Crawford picture, sounds like a triumph of mismanagement but it works out surprisingly well. Helen Hayes has to struggle a little with her role as Lien Wha but she manages to give it pathos and simplicity. Tom Lee is Ramon Novarro with his sideburns shaved off far above his ears. The rest of a strikingly Caucasian cast plays in the tradition for oriental melodrama-keeping the right hand in the left coat sleeve and saying little. Warner Oland as the Chinese gambler seems most at home in his surroundings...
...Manhattan, an advertisement in the Public Notices column of the Herald Tribune read: "AUTHOR-Economist offers lien future royalties, security for board and research expenses. Completing comprehensive work for publication. Believes found solution intergovernmental debt problem and keys to recovery...