ANNA MAY WONG NOW A STAR
Four years ago. in the Thief of R'i' y da.d ” we sot a glimpse ot a little aoue-t; Anna May Wong. She had only a small part then, a Mongolian slave a sly. mysterious, exotic traitbut to the critics and the public alike the stars of that picture were Douglas Fairbanks and Anna Jlaj W Fof vears little has been heard of tho American born Chinese girl, a small part here, another there. D pes mainly calling for little or no acting, and now suddenly with no more warnnfng than an Invitation to a private "Jew Anna May Wong has blazed into a ' r 0 f the first magnitude in ••tehow rife” a British International picture which will be seen shortly in New Zealand through the agency of Cinema \rr Film*. ’ Show Life la not onl> a great picture; it is human, bitterly beautiful, yet intensely human.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 570, 24 January 1929, Page 15
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153ANNA MAY WONG NOW A STAR Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 570, 24 January 1929, Page 15
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