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Java Head (Basil Dean) is a conscientious transcription of Joseph Hergesheimer's novel about a New England sea captain and the Manchu Princess he married and brought back from China to early 19th Century Salem. That it is much less exciting on the screen than it was between book covers is due partly to the fact that its English producers fell down badly in the matter of sound recording and partly to the mistake of its U. S. director, J. Walter Ruben, in his apparent supposition that lethargic pace was the proper cinema equivalent of Author Hergesheimer...
Shanghai (Paramount) is a soberly sentimental treatise upon the inconveniences of racial intermarriage in which Dmitri Koslov (Charles Boyer), son of a Manchu Princess and a Russian nobleman, makes diffident love to a visiting U. S. heiress (Loretta Young) among the bars and drawing rooms of Shanghai's European colony. Assiduous cinemaddicts, who have seen it emphasized in 75% of all previous geographic problem plays, should experience small difficulty in assimilating the moral of the picture, implicit in the scene in which Dmitri and his heiress decide to part forever: East is East and West is West. This scrap...
Died. Mrs. Alice Brown Davis, 82, chieftain of the Seminole Indian nation; of heart disease; in Wewoka, Okla. Daughter of a Scottish physician and a Seminole princess of the Tiger clan. Mrs. Davis was appointed chief of the Seminoles by President Harding in 1922 to succeed her brother, the late Governor John F. Brown Jr. of Oklahoma...
...Vienna reports circulated that Dowager Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians would follow the example of her dead husband's sister, Princess Josephine von Hohenzollern, enter a Catholic convent...
Bedside bulletins indicated that this ticklish operation went off satisfactorily last week. For a few months Princess Mary's neck will show a thin red line, thereafter a thread of scar almost impossible to discern...