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LON CHANEY IN “MR. WU"
Occasionally a picture comes the theme of which is away frow usual beaten track of motion oi't stories, and leaves one talking it lonsr after others have been ‘orint. "Mr. Wu." starring the t? Chaney, is one of t i?se pictures, , leaves a lasting impression on ever.' one who sees it. •*
Twenty-live girls, charming of Oriental femininity, in their SS* brocades and silks, appear in the n? den scenes in Lon Chaneys new ... ring vehicle, "Mr. Wu.” Ur ' And —with one exception—not one them can speak the Chinese lav-uaW This is what the Oriental educati™, has done for the third generation overseas Chinese. The new -Metro-Gold wyn-Mav,-picture. adapted from the Origins, ir 'tery novel by Louise Jordan MUr is a dramatic story of China in wtiS Chaney plays •‘Wu," the sinister maiT darin, working out a strange reverSl on an English family, and Re»L Adoree, in a make-up almost as outw as his own. plays his daughter. tv! cast includes Louise Dresser. Gertrnd, Olmsted, Holmes Herbert, Claud, King and others of note. Will y -- r director of "The Fire Brigade.” directed the new production.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 166, 4 October 1927, Page 14
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