AMUSEMENTS.
THEATRE ROYAL. "DAUGHTER OF THE DRAGON." Three famous portruycis of Oriental characters on tho screen—Amui May Wong, Warner OUirid, and Se»suo Hayakawa— appear in the Paramount picture "Thu Daughter 01 t!i« Dragon," at Iho Theatre Royal. If one likes mystery, romance, and action, is to be found in this remarkable, picture, which is M't in London's Chinatown and two countrv mansions. Fu Manchu, believing, iristakenlv, that tho deaths of some members of liN family were brought about by an Englishman, Sir John t'etrie, determines never to rest until he has wiped out that familv. Gaining access to Sir John Petrie's hou«e t'u Manchu manages to poison hivn by the use of a drug, but before he is able to escape from tho building he " fata.ly shot Prior to bis death he makes his daughter swear an oath 'hut she rill kill Sir John's son. Complications follow bat before tho worst can happen, fecot and Yar.l o.ucials straighten things out. lucre is a splendid supporting programme including tie scenic "The City of Monks a Paramount comedy, entitled "it Ought to be a Crime," and the screen son;;, Gallagher and Sheen,"
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20562, 2 June 1932, Page 6
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