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...Florida casino. Actually, however, the countenance of Edward G. Robinson is less wicked than Mongolian. Shrewdly cast in this old (David Belasco-Achmed Abdullah) melodrama of San Francisco's Chinatown, he needs no make-up to assure you that he is the heathen executioner of the Lem Sing Tong...
...oriental face of Edward G. Robinson contains all the most convincing features of the entertainment. He is forced, by the rules of his tong, to bury his hatchet in the neck of his best friend who, aware that no personal enmity is involved, wills his daughter to his murderer. Complications occur when the daughter (Loretta Young, with braces for her eyes) grows up. She marries the hatchetman but falls in love with a worthless Oriental who takes her to China and sells her into slavery. Robinson with his axe retrieves her. The narrative, sensational and gory, unlikely and over deliberate...
Chinatown Tong feuds and peace-conferences. Like many a newsgatherer, he often has been pressed into service as an emergency fireman, surgeon, bodyguard. He is married, has had one daughter, who died...
Throughout the U. S. the Hip Sings and On Leongs shot and hatcheted each other in 1917, again in 1924. During the past few months similar Chinatown killings have happened sporadically in New York, Newark, N. J., Chicago. U. S. newsreaders who thought "Tong wars" carry-overs from the days of native pomp, crime, and paganism were mistaken. Tongs are not, never were, ancient Oriental groupings for feuds. They are, instead, practical busi ness protective associations formed in the U. S. after the Civil War to keep Chinese laundrymen, restaurateurs, merchants, servants, etc. from molestation by competitors or the authorities...
...recent killings seem to have involved, besides the Hip Sings and On Leongs, traditional enemies, the four other principal Tongs, neutrals in past "wars." Federal deportation-threats and New York City police made the Tongs accept two ineffective peace treaties. Killings continued, baffling police. Last week in Manhattan U. S. District Attorney Charles H. Tuttle decided to set up his own "Benevolent Association." He summoned leaders from all six Tongs, got them to sign an agreement whereby each will appoint delegates to a new committee of arbitration, whose decisions they pledge to abide by. They also agreed...