‘SHANGHAI BOUND’

Evening Star, Issue 19891, 13 June 1928, Page 3

‘SHANGHAI BOUND’

AT THE REGENT ON FRIDAY ‘Shanghai Hound’ ns well ns ‘She"' a Sheik’ is billed for presentation at the Regent Theatre on Friday. ‘Shanghai Hound,’ starring Richard Dix and Mary Brian, is said to ho tho first feature-length production laid in iho surging, tempestuous land that was ouoo tho placid nation of the dragon. Chinese river pirates are attacking ships to-day as they have for centuries. Tho only dittorence is that they have improved their methods. Organised hands of marine marauders operate np and down tho Yangtsc River from Shanghai, stripping luckhss vessels they capture. They even attack oceangoing steamers. Authority for these statements is lid ward S. (Tex) O’Reilly, former member of tho International Police Force at Shanghai, and later drillmaster for the Chinese Imperial Army. Observations along tho Yangtsc River over a period of three years were ret down recently by O’Reilly and offered to Paramount, llis story ‘Shanghai Hound ’ was snapped up at once as a Richard Dix starring vehicle. Jt has proved, ideal material, according ■to critics.

Dix plays acapihin of a Yangtse River steamer in the picture, and his cllorts to take a cargo of American ic-fugee-s down the l iver to Shanghai and safety form the skeleton of the plot. River pirates, spurred on by hunger, greed, and revenge, are the obstacles iu his path, and he overcomes them only after hard fighting all the way down.

Mary Brian is the American girl Dix saves. Jocelyn Lee, Charles Byer. George Irving. Arthur Hoyt,- tom Maguire, Frank Chew, and Tetsu Komai appear in other important roles. Motje than 150 Chinese appear in the tight scenes. _ 1 She’s a Sheik 1 is the brightest comedy in which Bebe Daniels has yet appeared. It is a riot of laughter from beginning to end. and has a French Foreign Legion setting. An elaborate stage presentation, * In a Persian Garden,’ lias been produced for this special programme by Mr Maurice Guttndge.