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...Limehouse fog, wily, sinister Fu Manchu outwitted his Anglo-Saxon pursuers in and out of 13 books and the most exotic parts of the world, assembled a memorable team of Oriental ogres to dispose of his victims, lured such connoisseurs of evil as Boris Karloff and Warner (Charlie Chan) Oland to portray him on screen, almost died horribly at times but was so popular and profitable that he managed to survive and thrive: Rohmer sold him to movies, radio and TV. A mystery himself, Rohmer avoided people, tinkered with spiritualism, in later years wearied of Fu. His last book...
Build a Fire. Howard called up redheaded Walker Stone, 45-year-old boss of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers' Washington bureau, gave him his assignment and told him: "Build a fire. Stir up the animals." Stone set Reporter Andrew Tully to prowling the corridors of the State Department, assigned Oland D. Russell, his Far Eastern expert, to dig up other angles, briefed Editorial Writer Parker La Moore on the campaign ahead. Cartoonist Harold Talburt sharpened his Pulitzer-Prizewinning pencil...
...companion piece at the Met is "Murder Over New York," in which a new Charlie Chan tangles with a sabotage gang. The new Charlie runs as strongly to proverbs as did his predecessor, Warner Oland, but the late, unlamented fad of "Confucius Say's" has removed most of the punch from Oriental witticisms...
Died. Pearl White, 41, and Warner Oland, 57, respectively heroine and villain of The Fatal Ring, Wartime cinema serial thriller; Miss White in Paris of a liver ailment, Mr. Oland in Stockholm of bronchopneumonia. Throughout her career as serial queen, Miss White never used a double, never visited Hollywood. Mr. Oland, who often threatened cinema death to daring, cliff-hanging Heroine White, won further fame as Detective Charlie Chan in a recent series of mystery films; Miss White in 1921 retired to Paris with a fortune...
...Moto's Gamble. Twentieth Century-Fox called Mr. Moto (Peter Lorre) into the Gamble case (originally called Charlie Chan at the Ringside) after the disappearance from the Fox Western Avenue studios last January of Hon. Detective Chan (Warner Oland). One day during production he stepped out to the water cooler, failed to return, leaving the Ringside case unsolved and Twentieth Century-Fox in danger of being $100,000 out of pocket. The availability of Mr. Moto saved the $100,000, added a feather to the cap of resourceful Producer Sol M. Wurtzel. Later found at his home, Hon. Chan...