DE LUXE TO-NIGHT.
A PULSATING- DRAMA OF THE EXOTIC ORIENT. “THE ROAD TO MANDALAY." Drama—elemental and primitive—ia a picturesque Eastern setting—-sweep* you along “The Road to Mandalay. * * Was Kipling right when he said “Never the twain shall meet!" This dramatic thunderbolt depicts the meeting of East and West —shows you life through Oriental eyes—takes you through ,thq ( picturesqjjie..uj37iq,j)f ; life in the Far East. And just think, bf the cast! Lon Chaney —the man of a thousand faces —in a make-up that defies nature, as “Singapore Joe," the blind outcast whose name was feared from China to Malay. Owen Moore as “the a renegade naval officer who won redemption through a pore girl. Lois Moran as Rosemary, a flower cherished by everyone in Mandalay, and most of all by her unknown father. 11. B. Walthall as Father James, the saintly priest—and brother of Singapore Joe. Sopin, noted Japanese actor, as Chinee Charlie Wing, the. sinister knife-thrower of the Orient. It was directed by Tod Browning, who made “The Unholy Three" and “The Blackbird" —and it’s a Metro-Oold-wyn-Maycr special.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 29 February 1928, Page 4
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