Paramount Press Books (1917)

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Press stories to be sent out a week or ten days in advance of the showing of “THE CALL OF THE EAST” PICTURE FILMED IN CHINATOWN OF SAN FRANCISCO Sessue Hayakawa, the well-known Japanese screen actor, a cast of supporting players , and his director, George H. Melford, recently spent several weeks in Chinatown, San Francisco, where they made the exterior scenes for Hayakawa's newest Paramount picture, "The Call of the East." This was written especially for Sessue Hayakawa by Beulah Marie Dix. Tsuru Aoki, Mr. Hayakawa's winsome little Japanese wife is one of the leading women, while the other is Margaret Loomis, whose real name is Lehua Waipahu and who made a sensation as the Hawaiian girl in "The Bottle Imp" with Mr. Hayakawa recently. "The Call of the East" is to be shown at the ........ Theatre on Having had two leading women in "Hashimura Togo," Sessue Hayakawa, the clever Japanese actor in Paramount pictures, seems to have acquired the "dual leading woman" habit, for in "The Call of the East", his newest Paramount picture in which he is appearing on at the Theatre, he has for his principal feminine players, Margaret Loomis and Tsuru Aoki. Sessue Hayakawa, the Paramount Japanese star who is appearing at the ......... on in "The Call of the East, " is engaged in writing a scenario of his own experiences as a Japanese schoolboy in this country. Mr. Hayakawa recently completed the production of the "Hashimura Togo" stories from Wallace Irwin's stories of the Japanese schoolboy and has decided to adapt his own experiences for the screen. It will be recalled that Mr. Hayakawa came to this country as a student in the University of Chicago, speaking very little English and devoting his time to the study of English drama and the translation of the English classics into Japanese. 13