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104 Picture Show Annual » • '4 9 FROSTED YELLOW WILLOWS WE know her as Anna May Wong, but that is only her screen name. Her real name is far, far prettier. Frosted Yellow Willows. Rather a pity they altered it, I think. But this little star is an American-born Chinese, so perhaps the more European title suits her best. Anna comes from real Chinese parentage, but she is not the first member of her family to leave the beaten course. Her grandfather left the country of his birth for California during the Gold Rush. He took his family with him, and when he died they were left to fend for themselves in a strange country. Anna's father, Wong Sam Sing, worked in the mines diligently until he was nineteen, then he went back to China, but later he returned to America. Wong Sam Sing, hcwever, did not return to his mining activities in California. He married, and with his wife opened a laundry. A year later Anna was born. This didn't please her father at all. He had wanted a son, and he was so disgusted, in i fact, that he went away and did not come back for many days. I Anna's childhood was very happy. She played with all the m children in their neighbourhood, and spoke English perfectly. At I school, too, she was perfectly happy until one day a crowd of boys f called after her " Chink, Chink, Chink ! " Anna rushed home in a flood of tears, and threw herself into her mother s arms. Never be- fore had she considered herself any different from her little American B playmates. But after comforting her, her mother said quietly : A " Accept everything in life as it comes. Hold you no malice in your H heart towards anyone "—a philosophy Anna has never forgotten, K and which has since proved invaluable to her. B Then came the time for Anna to start out to work in the world. H She did not like the work in her father's laundry, so managed to get a position in a big stores, where she served behind the counter. It was here that she attracted the attention of a man who was searching for Chinese players for a particular film. He was struck V by Anna's beauty and engaged her there and then. And that was the beginning of Anna's picture career. The store interested her no longer, and when other little roles on the screen were offered to her she accepted them with alacrity. Now she has a long list of screen successes to her credit, and is winning fresh laurels with PLAIN SAILING Everything was «ry plain sailing for Malcolm McGregor's entry into filmland. The son of an American millionaire, he was sailing around in a yacht for a pleasure cruise, when he even- tually landed in Hollywood, and what more natural than that such a handsome fellow should also land in pictures ? But the path to stardom was not so smooth for this rich young man as you might imagine. Only after many months of work from studio to studio did he eventually win through—in " Broken Chains." Malcolm McGregor has black hair and deep brown eyes, and is five feet eleven inches in height.