FAMOUS CHINATOWN SQUAD
LOCALE OF FILM FOR STRAND The famous Chinatown. Squad of the Man Francisco police department plays a prominent part in ‘ Chinatown Squad,’ the melodrama which comes to the Strand on Friday. Lyle Talbot and .Valerie Hobson head the cast of ‘ Chinatown Squad.’ A picked force of inen patrols tnis mysterious district, constituting- a veritable city within a city, with a population of 15,000 Orientals. Tong wars flare out on occasion, and the quarter had been the scene of many unsolved crimes. Up to a few years ago the region was especially dangerous, since the notorious Barbary Coast was in full operation directly adjacent to Chinatown, and at ' many points extended into the Celestial preserves. With the coming of Prohibition, however, the Barbary Coast languished and all but disappeared. In ‘ Chinatown Squad ’ a murder is committed in a Chinese cafe, and the story concerns the solution of the mysterious crime, in ‘ We’re la the Money,’ which will be shown on the same programme, two of the' most popular and talented actresses on the modern screen, Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell, provide some excellent team work and receive splendid support from Hugh Herbert and Ross Alexander.
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Evening Star, Issue 22191, 20 November 1935, Page 12
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197FAMOUS CHINATOWN SQUAD Evening Star, Issue 22191, 20 November 1935, Page 12
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