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FEBRUAPY 1925
P Chinese Puzzle
The description suits Anna May Wong to a T.
Then she spoke. " Say, Julanne," she remarked, " I got this coat at a bargain sale downtown and, gee, I don't know now whether I like it or not. You know how it is with anything you get at a sale. Afterward, you're apt to think it looks like something the cat
Anna's
mother
treasures
this baby
picture of her.
dragged in."
She revolved slowly in the centre of the small room, a slim, smartly clad figure. Julanne assured her she liked the coat and presently, seemingly more satisfied in regard to her recent purchase, she departed in the general direction of Bagdad.
Julanne smiled. " She surprised you, didn't she? But here's a peculiar fact about Anna May Wong," she said. " By the time you've talked with her for five minutes you forget that she is Chinese."
Improbable as this sounds, it is absolutely true. Anna May Wong, among Americans, is so thoroughly one of us that her Oriental background drops completely away.
Left : Anna May in " The Thief of Bagdad." Below : With Tom Meighan and company in " The Alaskan."
I first met Anna May Wong about a year ago. She was lending her Oriental beauty, as the poets say, to Douglas Fairbanks' production of The Thief of Bagdad. I had dropped in at the studio to have a char with Doug's leading woman, Julanne Johnston, and, the dressing-room door being open, Anna May walked right in. She nodded briefly in my direction.