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...bright last week for Mr. Henry Pu Yi, former Emperor of China, who aspires to be Emperor of Manchuria. But Tokyo conceded that this weak young man with extremely weak eyes still has a chance to be chosen as Japan's Imperial Puppet. Furthermore, his proud Manchu mother, the daughter-in-law of his famed & terrible grandmother, the last real Empress Dowager, died last week...
...Henry Pit. Yi agrees to provide her permanently with separate maintenance in her own house?an unprecedented concession from a Manchu. electrifying to all Chinese husbands. Deeply shocked, one conservative Peiping paper branded "this renegade concubine" as "no better than what is called in the United States 'gold-digger...
...family has been enjoying the generosity and kindness of the Manchu royal family for over 200 years, and our ancestors for four generations have received the highest royal decorations. The former Emperor has never ill-treated you, and even if he did, you should endure it, for it is your fate, which should be endured until death if necessary to reciprocate all the generosity bestowed upon our family by the Manchu rulers...
Daughter of the Dragon (Paramount) shows the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu (Warner Oland) far less insidious than he seemed in the stories of Sax Rohmer, engaged in homicide on an ambitious scale but in a manner too placid to be awful. Brought to his deathbed early in the picture, he charges his daughter (Anna May Wong) to continue his program of extermination. This she attempts to do, in the case of a British aristocrat and his son, who falls in love with her. She is hindered by the ministrations of a Chinese detective, who loves her also but does...
...voice teacher from Peiping armed himself with an array of musical instruments and stage costumes, journeyed to Tientsin, there to instruct Hsuan Tung, onetime Manchu Emperor of China, in the art of operatics. Since his expulsion from Peiping seven years ago, Hsuan has lived modestly as "Mr. Henry Pu Yi," has amused himself with a variety of hobbies including cycling, tennis, skating...