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Many a squeamish U. S. citizen believes that a Chinese can live on what an Occidental throws away, suspects that Chinese business establishments ? notably chop suey restaurants and laundries?are unsanitary. Caucasian aversion to Chinese hygiene entered a business quarrel which reached New York City's courts fortnight...
...ends with, "Graham McNamee announcing." There is no pun about Chinese junk. Pictorially, Around the World in 80 Minutes is nothing much. But the cinema has always before treated information as a bore; travelogs have almost without exception been sad and spiritless products proving, to the accompaniment of chop-suey music, that all Chinese look alike. This travelog is a novelty because it is witty and de luxe, the record of a trip which must have been fun and of a personality which is happy, egoistic, alert. Douglas Fairbanks obviously enjoyed making it, should enjoy a handsome profit from...
...corresponds roughly to the one which any newsreader detects between the lines of items concerning adolescent bandits, schoolboy murderers and other such. It tells about a boy (Eric Linden) who, failing to win a high-school prize for oratory, takes up with bad companions, patronizes dance halls and chop-suey dens. While drunk he kills a friendly old delicatessen dealer. At the trial he dramatizes his predicament, undertakes to conduct the defense of himself & accomplices. He repents, too late, when he has been sentenced to death. Good shot: Eric Linden borrowing a dime from the prison attendant to give...
...Chop Suey and the Chinese tong are as American as hashed brown potatoes; neither is known in China; both sprang up to fill a need. Tong means association. The first tong was organized in San Francisco's Chinatown several years before the Civil War to protect its members from the invasion of competitors in business, from legal injustice (or justice). So effective was it that rival or imitative tongs were soon found wherever there were Chinese colonies. Tong leaders began employing hatchetmen (boo how doy), gun- men who managed the affairs of brainier tong leaders, terrorized respectable citizens, puzzled...
However I do not think we need be unduly alarmed. Many of the boys who wear French Crosses still refer to our late, great allies as the Damned Frogs, and I have eaten much chop suey and caviar and felt no inclination either to open a hand laundry or join the Third International...