STATE THEATRE.
Shirley Temple in "Stowaway."
For her unusual role in her most remarkable picture, Shirley Temple had to learn some four hundred words of real Chinese, lending not only authenticity but extraordinary entertainment to the Twentieth Century-Fox film. "Stowaway," which opens at the State Theatre tomorrow. Singing and speaking in the official mandarin dialect of China -so well that she wins a prize in a Chinese theatre, Shirley had two hundred and fifty fellow-students studying the language with her. These were the Chinese "extras" in the film, all of whom spoke dialects other than the one the Chinese Government is endeavouring to make the official tongue of China.' Cast in the role of the daughter of American missionaries in China, orphaned by a bandit raid, Shirley somehow gets to Shanghai, where she meets Robert Young, a rich young- playboy, who loses his heart to her. The manner in which Shirley finally helps her handsome benefactor win the hand of Alice Faye, who was promised to another, provides outstanding entertainment. Also featured in the cast are Eugene Pallette. Helen Westley, Arthur Treacher, J. Edward Bromberg, and Astrid Allwyn.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 14
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188STATE THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 14
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