AMUSEMENTS
REGENTTHEATRE. TO-NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY, “DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI.” Lovely Anna. May Wong, Chinese actfess; returns to the screen after a two year' absence 1 in ParalHbunt’s "“Daughter of. Shanghai,” a fast-moving stor.y of the alien smuggling,racket, which Open# to-night at the Regent-Theatre;-During; her absence Miss Wong has appeared on the legitimate-stagev notably at. summer stock theatres around New York;- The cast of. “Daughter.-of Shanghai”- also includes Philip' Aim, Charles Bickford; Larry 1 Crabbe,. Cecil; Cmmingham; J. : [-Carrol Najsh and Evelyn Brent. In an unidentifiable plane in which six aliens are huddled, Harry Morgan and James Lang* alien; smugglers, flee a pursuing' Government plane. Pressed hard, they dump the screaming “evidence” into 1 the seal. Later, two of the “brains” behind the smuggling ring, Frank Barden find Andrew Sleete, approach Quaff Lin, wealthy merchant, arid , demand, that he take some aliens off their hands. When he refuses they kill him/ Lari Ying Lin. his daughter goe s to Mrs Hunt, wealthy society matron for help. She introduces the girl to an in- 1 - spector and Kim Lee, a Government' agent-.* When they leave it is reveal-? ed' thnt Mrs Hunt is the power behind the smuggling ring.. ’'Determined to bring*her father’s murderers to justice, Lari Ying Lin turns detective and soon'' finds herself on a remote island where she takes a job as cbinrer in a low rclas s cabaret operated by Hartman.’ Site disc'ovors:that the resort is a blind; for an alien “receiving station.'” *
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1938, Page 3
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