Paramount and Artcraft Press Books (1917)

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Press stories to be sent out two or three days in advance or during the showing of “THE SECRET GAME” THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN NATURAL ALLIES, SAYS HAYAKAWA Although a native of Japan and still a loyal citizen, Sessue Hayakawa, the noted Japanese actor, has lived so long in the United States that he has come to look upon it as the land of his adoption and one of the highest ambitions of this well known player is to see the two countries firmly established as friends and Allies. When reading over the scenario of his newest Paramount picture, "The Secret Game", the fact that this point was strongly emphasized pleased Hayakawa. "I have no doubt", he said in speaking of the production "that some day in the not-far-distant future, we will see many of the scenes Mr, Fairfax has incorporated in 'The Secret Game' enacted and written in the annals of history," "The Secret Game" is a distinctly novel production, throwing a new light on the international situation of this country today and tomorrow. It is to appear in this city at the Theatre on The Japanese colonies of San Fraicisco and Los Angeles were recently interested by the announcement that a summer resort had been built and financed by some of their members in the mountains of northern California. This was to be exclusively Japanese, and Japanese sunken gardens, quaint tea houses and pagodas had been built. The order of the day was to wear Japanese clothing and to many of the thoroughly Americanized Colonists it was as if they were returning to a half-forgotten pre-existence, flayakawa and his wife, Tsuru Aoki were enthusiastic boosters of the resort and among its most ardent frequenters. A few of the scenes of one of Hayakawa' s late Paramount pictures were taken there. His most recent, however, "The Secret Game" is a thoroughly American production, the scenes of which were supposed to have taken place in San Francisco. "The Secret Game" is scheduled to appear at the Theatre on Tsuru Aoki, demure Japanese wife of Sessue Hayakawa, the noted screen actor, is having a somewhat lengthly vacation while her husband continues his screen activities, the most recent of which is the production of "The Secret Game" which is to be shown at the Theatre on 16