CHINESE STORY
EDWARD ROBINSON IN THE "HONOURABLE MR. WONG." Edward G. Robinson, one of the screen's greatest character actors, adds another characterisation to his long list of parts as Wong Low Get, Chinese Tong memher, in "The Honourahle Mr. Wong," a First National and Vitaphone production. In "The Honourable Mr. Wong," adapted from the play hy the late David Belasco and Archmed Adbullah, Edward G. Robinson plays a feared member of a tong whose vowed duty is to carry out the edicts of the secret society by way of the hatchet, even when it is his boyhood friend who inust suffer the death penalty. The story is essentially dramatic, and is played against an authentic oriental hackground, the scenes heing set in San
Francisco's chinatown of fifteen years, and to-day and in China. Loretta JtTouiig, as Toya San, ward and wife of "The Honourable Mr. Wong" beconies a beautiful Chinese girl for this picture. Her make-up is beautiful, and marvellous enough to earn for her the title of "Girl Lon Chany." Aside from her extremely decorative value to "The Honourable Mr. Wong," she rev'eals a dramatic talent unusual in such a yourig actress. This picture will he released in Wellington very shortly.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 254, 18 June 1932, Page 7
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