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...unhappy ending. In San Francisco, representatives of a Chinese revolutionist have pledged themselves to send him $100,000. To do this they decide to auction off their daughters for $25,000 each. Three of the daughters meet with mysterious misfortunes. The fourth and most beautiful, Lien Wha, persuades a rich Chinese gambler that she is worth the whole $100,000. This is most sad for brave Lien Wha; she is in love with a handsome young Chinese named Tom Lee. It is giving away no secret to explain that Tommy Lee turns out to be a Chinese prince; and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 9, 1933 | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...casting of The Son-Daughter, originally listed as a Joan Crawford picture, sounds like a triumph of mismanagement but it works out surprisingly well. Helen Hayes has to struggle a little with her role as Lien Wha but she manages to give it pathos and simplicity. Tom Lee is Ramon Novarro with his sideburns shaved off far above his ears. The rest of a strikingly Caucasian cast plays in the tradition for oriental melodrama-keeping the right hand in the left coat sleeve and saying little. Warner Oland as the Chinese gambler seems most at home in his surroundings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 9, 1933 | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...last week. This time, shocked by his brawling, his publicity junket to the Pacific Coast, his high-handed method or turning the municipal administration over to his cronies, Newburyport did not vote "Lord" Andrew a single ward. Into the hands of Gayden Wells Morrill, retired shoe manufacturer, was placed wha left of the city government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: End of Lord Andrew | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...Generally translated by Scots "Wha daur meddle wi' me?" In literal English: ''No man attacks me with impunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 'Third Class Eggs | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...labeled "Peek." The damsel, who might have been either weeping or sleeping, was labeled "Farm Vote." The departing gallant wore a haughty "G. O. P." label. The dubious gallant bore an unmistakable resemblance to Nominee Smith, and to make certainty certain, Cartoonist Homer Speltz of the Gopher Prairie, Wha.,* Clarion had labeled the figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Peeking | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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