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On the seventh night we celebrate Goddess Kalaratri. This form of Durga has a complexion dark as night which symbolises infinity. Goddess Kalaratri is the Devi that accepts everything from the Devotee, not only the good, but all the negative qualities. She just absorbs them.
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Who is Sri Durga Ganapathi?
Sri Durga Ganapathi is another divine form of Lord Ganesha, which is symbolizes the victory in any tasks. In this form, Sri Durga Ganapathi holds victory flag represents, He is invincible. He appears in deep red and golden hue complexion with ashta-bhujas (Eight-arms). In His main right hand holds broken tusk and his main left hand holds the rose apple fruit. On His other hands hold a bow, an arrow, a sugarcane, a noose, a elephant goad, japa beads mala (Rudraksha) and victory flag.
Sri Durga is popular fierce form and warrior aspect of Absolute Godhead. Also She is depicted with multiple (variously, from ten and upto thousand) arms, carrying various weapons and riding a ferocious lion. She is invincible over the darkness, as She is the incarnation taken to slay the mahishasura or demon. Hence She is also called as Mahishasuramardini. No darkness can stand in front of Sri Durga Ganapathi form. Here the term darkness represents demons, big obstacles, extreme illness, heavy fear, material attachments, etc.
Why Sri Durga Ganapathi Homam?
As Sri Durga Ganapathi form is the combination of Sri Durga (victory over darkness) and Lord Ganesha. In the word Durga "Durg" means any obstacles/vighnas in spiritual or material life and the shabda ‘aa’ stands for ‘hanta’ or demolisher; in other words Durga demolishes Daityas (Asuras or demons), Maha Vighna (great obstacles), Bhava bandhana (attachments), Karma, Shoka, Duhkha (Sadness), Naraka, Janma / birth, Yamadanda, Maha Bhaya and Atyanta Roga or extreme illnesses. Sri Durga Ganapathi Homam benefits the devotees with the mercy of Goddess Durga and Lord Ganesha, to overcome any obstacles and darkness. Absolute victory is guaranteed when one have mercy of Sri Durga Ganapathi form.
Benefits and Significance
Sri Durga Ganapathi Homam provides significant benefits in removal of evil, extreme illness, maha bhaya (extreme fear), extreme sadness, material attachments (removal of attachment with bad habits), fear of death etc. Vedic Folks perform this significant Homam with specific chants, which results devotees with blessings of Sri Durga Ganapathi.
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Music Hall’s 2008 – 2009 Season Opener started with Complexions Contemporary Ballet including an encore performance for long time supporter Maggie Allesee’s Birthday Celebration.
Complexions was created by Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson and boasts dancers from New York City Ballet, National Ballet of Canada and the Dance Theater of Harlem. The evening performances included Hissy Fits, Gone, Momentary Forevers, Ava Maria, Wonder-Full and Routines (pictured).
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UMKC Conservatory Dance welcomes Edgar Anido, dancer with Complexions Contemporary Ballet, NYC. Mr. Anido works with dance students on one of his choreographed works for the Fall Dance Concert, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2013, 7:30 p.m. White Recital Hall. Mr. Anido is second from right, with dance faculty, DeeAnna Hiett.
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On the seventh night we celebrate Goddess Kalaratri. This form of Durga has a complexion dark as night which symbolises infinity. Goddess Kalaratri is the Devi that accepts everything from the Devotee, not only the good, but all the negative qualities. She just absorbs them.
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Anna May Wong, Akim Tamiroff, Gail Patrick and Lloyd Nolan star in this thrilling crime drama.
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful Oriental friend and hostess (read: mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang. Margaret ignores him as she plans to wed Philip Easton, a penniless bond salesman. The furious Recka, poses as a friend to Easton, while planning to ruin him. His henchmen kidnap Easton when he is carrying a large assignment of bonds, and he is branded as a runaway thief. The only doubters are Margaret and Police Inspector Brandon, who knows Recka's methods and suspects foul play. Easton is found in an abandoned house and arrested as the gangsters have taken the bonds and tipped the police where to find him. Recka offers to clear Easton if Margaret will become his bride and, while her hatred for Recka is intense, her love
FIRST ASIAN AMERICAN STAR!
Written by PHILIP LEIBFRIED
Her complexion was described as "a rose blushing through old ivory;" she was beautiful, tall (5'7"), slender, and Chinese-American. The last fact kept her from attaining the highest echelon among Hollywood's pantheon of stars, but it did not affect her popularity, nor keep her from becoming a household name. She was Anna May Wong, nee Wong Liu Tsong, a name which translates to "Frosted Yellow Willows," and she was born, appropriately enough, on Flower Street in Los Angeles' Chinatown on 3 January 1905, above her father's laundry. Anna May Wong's contribution to show business is a unique one; she was the first Asian female to become a star, achieving that stardom at a time when bias against her race was crushing. With determination and talent allied to her exotic beauty, she remained the only Asian female star throughout her forty-year career, never fully overcoming all prejudices in maintaining that position. Perhaps the rediscovery of her art will elevate her star to the pantheon of great performers and serve as a guiding light to Asian performers who still struggle to find their rightful place. Anna May Wong's life and career is something that is important for all who value greatly the Asian / Asian Pacific American communities' many artists and what we can all contribute!
Excerpt from : That Old Feeling: Anna May Wong
Part II of Richard Corliss' tribute to the pioneer Chinese-American star.
Daughter of the Dragon. Paramount 1931.
Based on a Fu Manchu novel by Sax Rohmer.
Daughter of the Dragon extended the curse sworn by Dr. Fu on the Petrie family to the next generation. Fu Manchu (Warner Oland), long ago injured and exiled in an attempt on Petrie Sr., returns to London and confronts the father: "In the 20 years I have fought to live," he says in his florid maleficence, "the thought of killing you and your son has been my dearest nurse." He kills the father, is mortally wounded himself and, on his deathbed, reveals his identity to his daughter Ling Moy (Wong) and elicits her vow that she will "cancel the debt" to the Fu family honor and murder the son, Ronald (Bramwell Fletcher)... who, dash it all, is madly infatuated with Ling Moy. Ronald has seen "Princess Ling Moy Celebrated Oriental Dancer" perform, and the vision has made him woozy. "I wish I could find a word to describe her," this calf-man effuses. "Exotic that's the word! And she's intriguing, if you know what I mean." In a near-clinch, Ling Moy wonders if a Chinese woman can appeal to a British toff. When he begs her to "chuck everything and stay," she asks him, "If I stayed, would my hair ever become golden curls, and my skin ivory, like Ronald's?" But the lure of the exotic is hard to shake. "Strange," he says, "I prefer yours. I shall never forget your hair and your eyes." They almost kiss ... when an off-camera scream shakes him out of his dream. It is from his girlfriend Joan (Frances Dade), and the societal message is as clear and shrill: white woman alerting white man to treachery of yellow woman. Ling Moy, a nice girl, previously unaware of her lineage, might be expected to struggle, at least briefly, with the shock of her identity and the dreadful deed her father obliges her to perform. But Wong makes an instant transformation, hissing, "The blood is mine. The hatred is mine. The vengeance shall be mine." Just before his death, Fu mourns that he has no son to kill Ronald. But, in a good full-throated reading, Wong vows: "Father, father, I will be your son. I will be your son!" The audience then has the fun of watching her stoke Ronald's ardor while plotting his death. When she is with him, pleading and salesmanship radiate from her bigeyes. But when an ally asks her why she keeps encouraging the lad, she sneers and says, "I am giving him a beautiful illusion. Which I shall crush." As a villainess, she is just getting started. Revealing her mission to Ronald, she tells him she plans to kill Joan "Because you must have a thousand bitter tastes of death before you die." (The ripe dialogue is by Hollywood neophyte Sidney Buchman, whose distinguished list of credits would include Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Here Comes Mr Jordan and The Talk of the Town.) She soon ascends on a geyser of madness as she decides on a new torture: "My vengeance is inspired tonight. You will first have the torture of seeing her beauty eaten slowly away by this hungry acid." An aide holds a hose gadget over Joan's soon-to-be-corroded face, and Ronald cries for Ling Moy to stop. Very well she says. "Ling Moy is merciful." She barks at Ronald: "Kill her!" He must decide if his favorite white girl is to be etched with acid or stabbed to death. Great stuff! Melodrama is the art of knowing how precisely too far to goThe film is a triangle: not so much of Ling Moy, Ronald and Joan as of Ling Moy, Ronald and a Chinese detective, Ah Kee, played by Sessue Hayakawa, the Japanese actor who in the teens was Hollywood's first Asian male star. He's not plausibly Chinese here, and he is in a constant, losing battle with spoken English. But he is a part of movie history, in the only studio film of the Golden Age to star two ethnically Asian actors. And he gives his emotive all to such lines as "It is the triumph of irony that the only woman I have ever deeply loved should be born of the blood that I loathe." And in the inevitable double-death finale neither the villainess nor the noble detective can survive the machinations of Hollywood justice he gently caresses the long hair of the lady he would love to have loved. "Flower Ling Moy," he says, a moment before expiring. "A flower need not love, but only be loved. As Ah Kee loved you."
The Personal Anna May Wong
This 5'7 beauty loved to study and could speak in an English accent, as well as being fluent in German and French with more than a passing knowledge of other tongues including Italian and Yiddish. For exercise she rode horses, played golf, and tennis. She liked to cook and regaled her guests with succulent Chinese dishes at frequent dinner parties. She preferred casual clothes, wearing slacks and sweaters at home, but cultivated an oriental motif in her very smart formal wardrobe. She studied singing with Welsh tenor Parry Jones before she participated in the film Limehouse Blues as George Raft's mistress. Anna loved to dance to contemporary music. Anna was quoted as saying, "I think I got my first chance because they thought I was peculiar. But, now I like to believe that the public are fond of me because they think I'm nice."
The story of Anna May Wong’s life traced the arc of triumph and tragedy that marked so many of her films. Wong's youthful ambition and screen appeal got her farther than anyone else of her race. But her race, or rather Hollywood's and America's fear of giving Chinese and other non-whites the same chance as European Americans, kept her from reaching the Golden Mountaintop. We can be startled and impressed by the success she, alone, attained. And still weask: Who knows what Anna May Wong could have been allowed to achieve if she
had been Anna May White?
Anna May Wong passed away on Feb. 3rd 1961 she was 56 years old.
Filmography:
The Red Lantern. Metro 1919. The First Born. Robertson Cole 1921.
Shame. Fox 1921. Bits of Life. Assoc. First National 1921.
The First Born. Robertson Cole 1921. Thundering Dawn. Universal 1923
The Toll of the Sea. Metro 1922 Drifting. Universal 1923 Fifth Avenue. PRC 1926.
Lillies of the Field. Assoc. First National 1924. The Thief of Bagdad. United Artists 1924
The Fortieth Door. Pathé serial 1924. The Alaskan. Paramount 1924.
Peter Pan. Paramount 1924. Forty Winks. Paramount 1925.
The Silk Bouquet/The Dragon Horse. Hi Mark Prod. 1926 The Desert's Toll. MGM 1926.
A Trip to Chinatown. Fox 1926. The Chinese Parrot. Universal. 1927.
Driven from Home. Chadwick 1927. Mr. Wu. MGM 1927.
Old San Francisco. Warner Bros. 1927. Why Girls Love Sailors. Pathé short 1927.
The Devil Dancer. United Artists 1927. Streets of Shanghai. Tiffany 1927.
Across to Singapore. MGM 1928. Pavement Butterfly (aka City Butterfly).
The City Butterfly. German 1929. Across to Singapore. MGM 1928.
The Crimson City. Warner Bros. 1928. Song. German 1928
Chinatown Charlie. First National 1928. Piccadilly, British International 1929.
Elstree Calling. British International 1930. The Flame of Love. British International 1930.
Hay Tang. German 1930. L'Amour Maitre Des Choses. French 1930.
Daughter of the Dragon. Paramount 1931. Shanghai Express. Paramount 1932.
A Study in Scarlet. World Wide 1933. Tiger Bay. Associated British 1933.
Chu Chin Chow. Gaumont 1934. Java Head. Associated British 1934.
Limehouse Blues. Paramount 1934. Daughter of Shanghai. Paramount 1937.
Hollywood Party. MGM short subject 1937. Dangerous to Know. Paramount 1938.
The Toll of the Sea. Metro 1922. The Thief of Bagdad 1924
Shanghai Express 1932
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39 Palm Beach (Qld) SLSC training Indonesians in surf reel and belt, Kuta Beach, Bali, Indonesia. September 1977
The Indonesians and Oriental tourists found my complexion, hairy limbs and height fascinating. Unlike other Australians, no amount of sun exposure could darken my skin. This was regarded by the Indonesians as a positive boon. Fair skin was regarded as a status symbol because of the perception that fair skinned people were not obliged to expose themselves to the sun like common peasants and peddlers. Rather, they were wealthy enough to stay indoors.
Indonesians have little or no body hair, and what little they had was black. My arms and legs were well covered in red hair. I had men feeling my forearms and saying "Oh, very good. Very strong." Hairiness apparently equated to manliness. At 6'4" I towered over most of the Indonesian men. Many did not reach my shoulders. Interestingly, as I worked on the beach, Oriental tourists would walk up and pose beside me as their friends photographed us. No doubt when they returned home they could show photographs titled 'This is me with the hairy, white giant'. I always smiled and posed for them, understanding their fascination with an odd looking human. Their smiles and thanks came in any number of languages. It left me amused and wondering if perhaps I had a career in Oriental circuses. I'll never know.
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND TO THE UNDYING MEMORY
OF
WILLIAM WENN
CAPTAIN OF THE NORFOLK REGT
AND OF ALL THE MEN OF
CATFIELD
WHO FELL DURING THE GREAT WAR
1914 – 1918
THIS CALVARY IS PLACED HERE
BY HIS WIFE RUTH WENN
ALSO OF
FRANCIS HAROLD HARRISON
LIEUT OF THE YORKSHIRE REGT
BROTHER OF RUTH WENN
THESE WERE HIS SERVANTS
IN HIS STEPS THEY TROD
FOLLOWING THROUGH DEATH
THE MATYRED SON OF GOD
VICTOR HE ROSE
VICTORIOUS TOO SHALL RISE
THEY WHO HAVE DRUNK
HIS CUP OF SACRIFICE
R.I.P.
Captain William Wenn, 1st/5th. Battalion, Norfolk Regiment.
The son of William and Edith Wenn of Walcot, Norfolk.
Husband of Ruth Wenn, nee Harrison, of Ludham, Norfolk.
William died, aged 31, on Sunday 1st. April 1917. He is buried in Grave: C. 45. at Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt with the personal inscription
'LOVE IS STRONGER THAN DEATH'
Lieutenant Francis Harold Harrison, 3rd. Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, attached to 5th. Battalion, Special Brigade, Royal Engineers.
The son of Frank and Ruth Harrison of 7 Guilford Place, London, W.C.1.
Francis died, aged 30, on Saturday 2nd. September 1916. He is buried in Grave: I. G. 9. at Bapaume Post Military Cemetery, Albert, Somme, France.
Lieutenant Edward Addy, 9th. Battalion, Australian Infantry, AIF.
Born on 5th. July 1872 at Catfield, the eldest of seven children of Edward, an agricultural labourer, and Mary Ann Addy, nee Garrod.
Husband of Annie Laura Addy, nee Gladden, and father of Dorothy May b. 6th. August 1904, Edward John Addy b. 27th. April 1907, Pearl Mary b. 30th. August 1910 and Raymond Clive b. 27th. February 1913.
On 6th. September 1887 Edward enlisted at Great Yarmouth into the Norfolk Regiment as Private Norfk/2013. it was recorded that he was 5 ft. 5 in. tall, weighed 119 lb., had a chest measurement of 33¾ in. and had a fair complexion with light hazel eyes and sandy hair. He had enlisted for 7 years Army Service and 5 years Reserve Service.
Edward was at the Depot from 6th. September 1887 to 16th. November 1887, before being transferred to the 1st. Battalion from 17th. November 1887 until 13th. February 1889. He continued service with the Norfolk Regiment at the Depot from 14th. February 1889 and was granted 1 pence Good Conduct pay on 6th. September 1889. He was transferred to the 2nd. Battalion on 4th. March 1890. He was appointed Lance Corporal on 15th. October 1890 and then Paid Lance Corporal on 26th. May 1891, before being promoted to Corporal on 10th. August 1891. He was transferred to Depot on 16th. May 1892, passed for promotion to Sergeant on 22nd. July 1892 and was sent back to the 2nd. Battalion on 7th. July 1893.
On 19th. August 1893, he extended his Army Service to complete 12 years with the Colours, and he was transferred to 1st. Battalion, Norfolk Regiment on 30th. September 1893 as Corporal. He was appointed unpaid Lance Sergeant on 25th. April 1894 and then promoted to Sergeant on 11th. July 1894.
On 21st. November 1894, he re-engaged for the Norfolk Regiment at Allahabad for such term as shall complete 21 years of service.
The Norfolk Regiment (9th. Foot) was stationed at Allahabad in late 1897. He received his Mounted Infantry Certificate on 29th. September 1896 and passed a course of instruction in Supply Duties and Transport on 15th. March 1898. The 1st. Battalion was sent to Bombay in 1898. His service records note he was involved with the campaigns at Tirah and Punjab Frontier 1897-98. He was transferred to 4th. Battalion, Norfolk Regiment on 15th. February 1900.
On 31st. October 1900, Edward married Annie Lauren Gladden at St. Giles, Colchester, Essex.
He was promoted to Colour Sergeant on 21st. August 1901 and then transferred to Permanent Staff of 2nd. Volunteer Battalion Norfolk Regiment as Colour Sergeant on 24th. April 1904. He was entitled to the India Medal 1895 with Tirah and Punjab Frontier 1897-1898 clasps and the Long Service and Good Conduct. Edward qualified for Special Instructor of Musketry (Distinguished) on 8th. November 1901 and passed a class of Instruction at Sparkbrook Small Arms Factory at Birmingham on 19th. December 1903.
Edward was transferred to 2nd. Volunteer Battalion Norfolk Regiment as Colour Sergeant on 24th. April 1904 and on 1st. April 1908, he transferred to 5th. Battalion as Colour Sergeant. On 31st. July 1908 he was permitted to remain in the Service beyond 21 years. On 5th. September 1909, Edward was discharged to pension. He took up employment as a florist.
In 1911, Edward and the family boarded the SS Zieten to emigrate to Australia, living at Craig Street, Red Hill, Brisbane in 1912. Edward joined the Commonwealth Forces as a Staff-Sergeant Major.
When war broke out he volunteered for active service with 9th. Battalion AIF, joining on 19th. September 1914 and listed as Regimental Sergeant Major.
His wife Annie and family left Brisbane in June 1914 aboard the SS Miltiades for London, arriving on 3rd. July 1914. They settled at 72 Magdalen Street, Colchester, Essex.
Edward embarked on HMAT Omrah A5 at Brisbane on 24th. September 1914, arriving in Egypt in early December.
On 2nd. March 1915 he left Alexandria aboard the SS Ionian to join the M.E.F. for the Gallipoli Campaign, and landed on Gallipoli on 25th. April 1915.
He was promoted to 2nd. Lieutenant on 28th. April 1915 at Gaba Tepe, and was appointed Lieutenant on 24th. July 1915.
The war diary for the 9th. Battalion on 20th. July 1915 records that “Lieut A ADDY sent away ill”. Edward was sent from Gallipoli to No. 2 Australian Stationary Hospital at Mudros. Recorded as 'slightly sick', he was sent to Malta on HMHS Neuralia and was admitted to Imtarfa Hospital on 25th. July 1915. He died, aged 43, at 7.45 p.m. on Tuesday 17th. August 1915 of dysentery and heart failure. Notes made on his clinical case sheet by Captain G. Basil Price RAMC, M O, RAMC, recorded he was 'conscious to within 12 hours of death, though wandering in mind at times, died from heart failure Aug 17 1915.'
Edward is buried in Grave: A. VIIIA. 6. at Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta with the personal inscription
'HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY
HIS SOUL TO HIS GOD'
Edward’s medals are,
India Medal 1895 with Punjab Frontier 1897-98
Tirah 1897-98 clasps
1914-15 Star
British War Medal
Victory Medal
Long Service Medal
Good Conduct Medal.
30372 Private Walter C. Blaxell, 2nd. Battalion, Norfolk Regiment.
Born in 1889 at Catfield, the son of George and Mary Ann Blaxell.
Married Bertha Henrietta, later Hannant, of Church Lane, Potter Heigham in 1910..
Father of Dorothy E. Blaxell.
Walter died, aged 29, on Saturday 22nd. June 1918. He is buried in Grave: XI. H. 8. at Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq with the personal inscription
'GOD HATH CALLED HIM TO PEACE'
Private Frederick John Brooks.
Birth registered at Smallburgh in June 1886
240347 Serjeant Walter Charles Brooks, 1st/5th. Battalion, Norfolk Regiment.
Born in 1893, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter George Brooks of Catfield.
Walter was killed in action, aged 24, on Thursday 19th April 1917 in Second Battle of Gaza. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Panels 11 to 15 of the Jerusalem Memorial.
1341/SBC Boy Cook Lancelot Arthur Clow, Royal Naval Reserve, shore establishment HMS Vivid Devonport, Devon
Born on 28th. January 1900 at Digby, Lincolnshire, the son of Frederick and Margaret Jane Clow of Lillington House, Catfield.
Lancelot died of pneumonia, aged 18, on Friday 15th. March 1918. He is buried to the south of All Saints church, Catfield.
Sergeant Fred George.
Birth registered at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in June 1886.
Recorded as a resident of Catfield in the 1911 census.
Private Percy Hall.
Nothing is known about this man.
40076 Private Alfred William Hudson, 9th. Battalion, Norfolk Regiment.
The son of Mrs. E. Hudson of Catfield Common.
Alfred died, aged 21, on Wednesday 18th. October 1916.
He was buried with a battlefield cross at map reference 57c.N.21.D.8.6. and was reburied in Grave: VIII. J. 14. at Bancourt British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France with the personal inscription
'DEATH DIVIDES
BUT MEMORY CLINGS'
Signaller Jesse Lock.
Born c. 1898 at Sutton, Norfolk.
Recorded as a resident of Catfield in the 1911 census.
3047 Serjeant Alexander Henry McJannet, 'C' Battery, 76th. Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
Born in 1894, the son of Mr. H. F. and Mrs. E. E. McJannet of Galloway House, Catfield.
Alexander died, aged 22, on Monday 25th. September 1916. He was buried at map reference T.19.a.before being reburied in Grave: V. L. 3. at Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France with the personal 'inscription
'THY WILL BE DONE'
493158 Private Frederick Lewis Myhill,1st/13th. Kensington Battalion, London Regiment, formally 6352 Private, London Regiment.
Born in 1885, the son of Augustine Edward and Sophia Myhill of Catfield
Frederick was killed in action, aged 31, on Sunday 8th. October 1916. He was buried in an unmarked grave at map location 57c.T.4.b.55.15 and was reburied in Grave: I. JJ. 35. at Secrerie Military Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France, possible in early 1934.
87321 Private Frank Charles Myhill, Royal Army Medical Corps.
Born 1884.
Husband of M. M. Myhill, later Baldwin, of The Street, Catfield.
Frank died, aged 33, on Thursday 10th. May 1917. He is buried south of All Saints church in Catfield.
1025DA Deck Hand Otto Cecil Mason, Royal Naval Reserve, HM Trawler Sisters Melville.
Otto died, aged 28, on Tuesday 13th. February 1917, when the trawler Sisters Melville, hired by the Admiralty for minesweeping and given the Admiralty number 1951, was mined and sunk with the loss of 7 crew. Otto has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel 26 of the Chatham Naval Memorial, Chatham, Kent.
231651 Able Seaman Walter Edward Neve, Royal Navy, HMS Recruit.
Recruit was a 1,089 ton R-class destroyer launchedon 9th. December 1916 by William Doxford & Sons of Sunderland. She was commissioned in April 1917 and in May 1917 was assigned to 10th. Destroyer Flotilla as part of the Harwich Force.
Walter died, aged 28, on Thursday 9th. August 1917 when the destroyer was sunk with the loss of 53 crew by a torpedo from the German submarine UB-16 commanded by Oblt. Wilhelm Rhein, 3 nautical miles north of the Noord Hinder lightvessel in the North Sea. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel 22 of the Chatham Naval Memorial, Chatham, Kent.
75/ST Stoker 1st. Class John Benjamin Newman, Royal Naval Reserve, HM Whaler Blackwhale.
Born on 6th. September 1867 at Catfield, the son of George, a farm labourer and Sarah Ann, nee Myhill.
Husband of Lily Gertrude Gillingwater, married in All Saint, Catfield in February 1892.
The 1901 census records John working as a railway navvy. The 1911 census records he was a labourer with six children.
Enlisting into the RNR, on Thursday 3rd. February 1916 John was serving aboard HM Whaler Blackwhale which was in Aberdeen harbour.
The Aberdeen Press and Journal of 5th. February reported,
'The body of a seaman named J.B. Newman was recovered from the tidal harbour at Aberdeen yesterday morning, he had not been long in the water. Newman was married and his home address was Catfield, near Gt. Yarmouth.'
The Rector of Catfield reported in the Waxham Deanery magazine of March 1916,
'John Benjamin Newman who was serving on HMS Blackwhale met with an accident and was drowned at Aberdeen. From the report sent to me by a senior Naval officer, he had been on watch on another vessel to which the men of Blackwhale had been removed while their ship was undergoing repair. After his watch he must have gone onto the quay and fallen off into the harbour, probably striking his head against some steps as he fell. His body was sent home to Catfield'.
John is buried south-east of All Saints church in Catfield with the personal inscription
'THE SOUL
OF THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED
THROUGH THE MERCY OF GOD
R.I.P.'
26475 Private Robert Newman, 14th. Battalion, Hampshire Regiment.
Born in Catfield, the son of Robert George and Sarah Newman of Old Farm, East Ruston, Norfolk.
Robert died on Wednesday 28th. February 1917. He is buried in Grave: XI. B. 11. at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
293000 Chief Stoker William Henry Newman, Royal Navy, HMS Aboukir.
Husband of Rose Octavia Newman of Virginia Cottage, Catfield.
Aboukir was a Cressy-class armoured cruiser, launched on 16th. May 1900.
On the morning of Wednesday 22nd. September 1914, Aboukir and her sister ships Cressy and Hogue were on patrol in the stormy North Sea. The ships were in line abreast, about 2,000 yards (1,800 m) apart at a speed of 10 knots. They did not expect a submarine attack and were not zigzagging but they had lookouts posted and had one gun manned on each side to attack any submarines if sighted.
The German submarine U-9 commanded by Kapitänleutnant Otto Weddigen, had been ordered to attack British transports at Ostend, Belgium but had been forced to dive and take shelter from the storm. On surfacing the crew spotted the three British ships off the Hook of Holland and moved to attack. U-9 fired one torpedo at 06:20 at Aboukir that struck her on the port side. Captain John Drummond thought he had struck a mine and ordered the other two ships to transfer his wounded men. Aboukir quickly began listing and capsized around 06:55
As Hogue approached Aboukir, her captain, Wilmot Nicholson, realized it had been a submarine attack and signalled Cressy to look for a periscope. His ship continued to close on Aboukir and having stopped to lowered all her boats, Hogue was struck by two torpedoes around 06:55. The sudden weight loss of the two torpedoes caused U-9 to broach the surface and Hogue's gunners opened fire without effect before the submarine could submerge again. Hogue capsized about 10 minutes after being torpedoed and she sank at 07:15.
Cressy's Captain Johnson attempted to ram the submarine, but did not hit anything and he resumed the rescue effort, until Cressy was torpedoed at 07:20. She also took on a heavy list and then capsized, before sinking at 07:55.
527 men were lost on Aboukir from a total of 1,397 rating and 62 officers lost in the attack.
William has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel 4 of the Chatham Naval Memorial, Chatham, Kent.
20644 Private Reginald William Pert, 1st. Battalion, East Surrey Regiment.
Born 1895, the son of James William and Rachel S. Pert of Catfield.
Reginald was killed, aged 21, in action in the attack on Morval on Monday 25th. September 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Pier and Face 6 B and 6 C. of the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
124384 Gunner Harold Thompson, 'B' Battery, 92nd. Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
The son of W. Thompson of Bleak Cottage, Catfield.
Harold died on Saturday 8th. September 1917. He is buried north of All Saints church in Catfield.
14457 Private Charles Robert Turner, 9th. Battalion, Norfolk Regiment.
The son of Charles Turner of Homestead Cottage, Lessingham, Norfolk.
Charles died, aged 21, on Tuesday 12th. January 1915. He is buried in Grave: ZHN. 37. at Bear Road Cemetery Brighton, Sussex with the personal inscription
'THE LORD GAVE
AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY'
50569 Private Albert James Twiddy, 4th. Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment), formall S/4/157278 Army Service Corp.
Born in 1887 at Norwich, Norfolk, the son of Malakie, a Midland & Great Northern Railway gatekeeper, and Bessie Twiddy of Catfield.
Brother of Willie, Earnest and Levi.
Husband of Florence Eliza Twiddy, nee Preston of Wreningham, Norfolk, married in 1917
The 1901 census records the 13 year old Albert already working as an agricultural labourer living at his widower father property, 'Gate House', Catfield
The 1911 census records Albert as a journeyman baker living in the household of his employer, Benjamin Sims at Lower Street, Horning, Norfolk.
Enlisted at Norwich, Norfolk.
Albert died of wounds, aged 30, on Friday 20th. September 1918. He is buried in Grave: B. 22. at Five Points Cemetery, Lechelle, Pas de Calais, France.
Albert is also commemorated on the Horning, Norfolk war memorial.
*Not listed on the memorial*
7878DA Deck Hand Bertie John Cook, Royal Naval Reserve, HM Trawler Cantatrice.
The son of Charles Joseph and Charlotte Eliza Cook of Catfield.
Bertie died, aged 24, on Sunday 5th. November 1916 when the 302 gross ton hired trawler, built in 1915 by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Ltd. of Beverley in 1915, was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-18, commanded by Oblt.z.S. Wilhelm Kiel, near Great Yarmouth and was lost with all 18 hands. Bertie has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel 19 of the Chatham Naval Memorial, Chatham, Kent.
23229 Driver William Woodcock Gibbs, 112th. Battery, 24th. Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
The son of Henry Thomas and Esther Elizabeth Gibbs of Catfield.
William died of heatstroke, aged 43, on Friday 11th. June 1920. He is buried in Plot 6, Grave 88 at Kamptee Cemetery, Khadki, Pune District, Maharashtra, India.
20750 Private John Helsdon, 1st. Battalion, Essex Regiment.
Born in 1891, the son of Charles and Amelia Mary Helsdon of Fenside, Catfield.
John was killed in action, aged 25, in the attack on Hilt Trench and Grease Trench on Thursday 12th. October 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Pier and Face 10 D of the Theipval Memorial, Somme, France.
Catfield suffered twice the national average of deaths in the First World War. 25 men from a village with a population of around 500 were lost.
The memorial unveiled and dedicated by the Dean of Norwich on 5th November 1919 on a village green adjacent to the churchyard of All Saints church. It is prominently situated at the junction of Hall Road and Church Road overlooking fields and by the path leading to the churchyard entrance. Ruth Wenn is understood to have been the memorial’s main benefactor.
1939 - 1945
5773664 Private Alfred George Newman, 5th. Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment.
The son of Edwin and Ellen Newman, of Catfield.
A prisoner of war of the Japanese, Alfred died on Thursday 21st. September 1944, aged 25.
The Japanese cargo ship Hofuku Maru was sailing from Singapore to Miri, Borneo as part of Convoy SHIMI-05 that consisted of 10 ships, 5 of which carried in total, 5,000 prisoners of war in appalling conditions.
At Borneo the Hofuku Maru left the convoy with engine problems, and sailed to the Philippines, arriving on 19th. July. She remained in Manila until mid-September while the engines were repaired. The POW remained onboard suffering terribly from disease, hunger and thirst.
On 20th. September, the Hofuku Maru and 10 other ships formed Convoy MATA-27, and sailed from Manila bound for Japan. The following morning the convoy was attacked 80 miles north of Corregidor by more than 100 US Navy carrier aircraft. All 11 ships in the convoy were sunk. Of those on the Hofuku Maru, 1,047 of the 1,289 British and Dutch POW on board died.
Alfred has no known grave and is commemorated on Column 52 of the Singapore Memorial, Kranji, Singapore.
2003426 Driver Arthur George Toll, 287 Field Company, Royal Engineers.
Born in 1920, the son of Herbert and Rosa Toll of Sutton, Norfolk.
Arthur died in the fighting for Singapore, aged 22, on Saturday 31st. January 1942. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Column 42 of the Singapore Memorial, Kranji, Singapore.
*Not listed on the memorial*
402979 Sergeant Geoffrey Carman, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, Royal New Zealand Air Force, 78 Squadron, RAF.
Born on 30th. January 1910 at Catfield, the son of Cecil Thomas and Constance May Carman, who emigrated to New Zealand in 1914.
Educated at Wanganui Collegiate School, Whanganui, New Zealand.
After enlisting, Geoffrey embarked, presumably for Canada aboard the Aorangi. He attended Course 1, Class 3/K of the Royal Canadian Air Force, No. 2 Wireless School at Calgary, Alberta, graduating on 14th. April 1941. He was then sent the Royal Canadian Air Force, No. 3 Bombing and Gunnery School at MacDonald, Manitoba.
Arriving in Britain, Geoffrey was attached to the RAF.
The Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk.V, medium bomber, coded Z6881, took off from RAF Middleton St. George in County Durham at 20:37 hr on 6th. September 1941 for a raid on Huls, Germany. It was shot down by a night fighter at Bergum, 7 miles SE of Leeuwarden, killing the crew of five.
Geoffrey was killed in action, aged 30, on Sunday 7th. September 1941. He is buried in Row 42, Grave 5 at Tietjerksteradeel Protestant Churchyard, Bergum, Netherlands.
Geoffrey is commemorated in the World War 2 Hall of Memories, Auckland War Memorial Museum and on the Gisborne War Memorial, Gisborne, NZ.
72690 Captain Anthony John Julian Cory-Wright, Forward Observation Office, 181 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
Born on 29th. August 1916, he was known as Julian, the son of Sir Geoffrey, 3rd. Baronet, Captain, 3rd. Battalion, East Kent Regiment and Flight Commander in the Royal Flying Corps, and Felicity Cory-Wright, nee Tree, of Brancaster.
Educated at Sandroyd School, Wiltshire and Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire.
On leaving school, he returned to Eton for a short spell to teach mathematics and then he enrolled as an articled clerk with Deloitte.
At the outbreak of war in September 1939 he mobilised with the Hertfordshire Yeomanry.
On 1st. June 1940 he married Susan Esterel Cory-Wright, nee Elwes of Catfield. They had three children, Virginia Caroline, b. 8th. May 1941, Juliet Susan, b. 22nd. October 1942 and Richard Michael 4th. Baronet, b. 17th. January 1944.
In March 1942 he joined 177th. Battery, 181st. Field Regiment, 15th. (Scottish) Division as a Gunner Officer.
On the night of 12/13th. June 1944 Julian's unit embarked aboard the U. S. liberty ship Fort Biloxi at Tilbury, Essex bound for Normandy and arrived off Arromanches on the afternoon of 14th. June. Because of bad weather not all of the units equipment could be landed until 22nd. June.
On morning of Monday 26th. June 1944, Julian and his troop move on foot towards their observation post position at St. Manvieu.
Captain Jack Cunis was at the Command Post and he called Julian on the field telephone and asked how it was going at the front. “Pretty brisk” Julian replied, then the line went dead. A shell had landed near Julian’s party. Sergeant Signaller John Bramald, accompanying him on the mission recalled that, characteristically, Julian's only concern was for his men before he lost consciousness and died.
Julian was killed in action, aged 27. He was initially buried beside the shell hole where he was killed, and was later buried in Grave: II. G. 11. at Tilly-Sur-Seulles War Cemetery, Calvados, France with the personal inscription
'ALL OUR LOVE.
VIRGINIA, JULIET, RICHARD
AND SUSAN,
Julian is also commemorated on Brancaster War Memorial, Norfolk, the gates of the Royal West Norfolk Golf Club, Knebworth War Memorial, Hertfordshire, the WW2 War Memorial, Eton College and at Sandroyd School, Wiltshire.
A keen artist, after the war his family published a book, 'From Norfolk to Normandy, The wartime art of Captain Julian Cory-Wright'.
3968167 Lance Corporal Thomas Basil Hopkins, 1st. Battalion, Welch Regiment.
Born in September 1915 at Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Husband of Mabel Maud Hopkins, née Myhill of Catfield, whom he married in the 3rd. quarter of 1943.
Thomas died, aged 28, on Thursday 21st. September 1944. He is buried in Grave: XIX, K, 8. at Coriano Ridge War Cemetery
Coriano, Provincia di Forli, Emilia-Romagna, Italy with the personal inscription
'IN GOD'S GARDEN
OF LOVING MEMORIES
WE MEET EVERY DAY'
5768081 Signalman Reginald George Reeve, 5th. Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals.
The son of John and Emma Reeve.
Husband of Laura Evelyn Reeve of Catfield.
Reginald died, aged 35, on Tuesday 1st. September 1942. He is buried in Grave: 7. H. 11. at Basra War Cemetery, Basra, Iraq with the personal inscription
'I CANNOT MOURN
BESIDE HIS GRAVE
BUT I THINK OF HIM EACH DAY'
Air Raid Precautions Warden Edith Watts.
Born on 20th. January 1895 in Catfield, one of the eleven children of Philip Arthur Gillings Bacon, a railway labourer, and Edith Bacon née Pollard. She was baptised on 14th. April 1895 at Catfield.
The 1901 census records Edith, her parents and five siblings living with her paternal widowered grandfather George Bacon in his home at The Common, Catfield.
Edith later moves to London where she is employed as a
general domestic servant living in an 8 roomed property at 101 Selborne Road, Southgate, North London, the home of James Burch, a director of a leather goods manufacturer, his wife and their two children.
In July 1925 she married Harry Watts in the Lewisham registration district. They had twins, John Alan and Joyce Constance, whose births were registered in the 2nd. quarter of 1927 in the Croydon registration district, Surrey.
Edith is listed in the 1939 England and Wales Register as both a housewife and part-time Air Raid Precautions Warden, living at 7 Cottingham Road, Penge, Kent. Her husband was described as a timber merchant and a part-time Air Raid Precautions Warden.
Edith died, aged 49, on Thursday 29th. June 1944. According to the Flying Bombs and Rockets website at 00.23 hr. a V1 flying bomb impacted at 7 Cottingham Road and caused extensive damage across the area. Four houses were demolished in Cottingham Road and 39 severely damaged. 67 shops and 84 houses were also damaged in Green Lane, High Street, Croydon Road and Clarina Road. It also caused severe damage to a range of buildings used as workshops, offices and stores and also a builder's warehouse. A total of three people died, including Edith's son.
Edith, and presumably her son, are buried in Penge.
Edith is commemorated in the Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour 1939-1945 located outside St. George's Chapel at Westminster Abbey.
The war memorial received Grade: II listed building status on 23th. February 2017.
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Anna May Wong, Akim Tamiroff, Gail Patrick and Lloyd Nolan star in this thrilling crime drama.
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful Oriental friend and hostess (read: mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang. Margaret ignores him as she plans to wed Philip Easton, a penniless bond salesman. The furious Recka, poses as a friend to Easton, while planning to ruin him. His henchmen kidnap Easton when he is carrying a large assignment of bonds, and he is branded as a runaway thief. The only doubters are Margaret and Police Inspector Brandon, who knows Recka's methods and suspects foul play. Easton is found in an abandoned house and arrested as the gangsters have taken the bonds and tipped the police where to find him. Recka offers to clear Easton if Margaret will become his bride and, while her hatred for Recka is intense, her love
FIRST ASIAN AMERICAN STAR!
Written by PHILIP LEIBFRIED
Her complexion was described as "a rose blushing through old ivory;" she was beautiful, tall (5'7"), slender, and Chinese-American. The last fact kept her from attaining the highest echelon among Hollywood's pantheon of stars, but it did not affect her popularity, nor keep her from becoming a household name. She was Anna May Wong, nee Wong Liu Tsong, a name which translates to "Frosted Yellow Willows," and she was born, appropriately enough, on Flower Street in Los Angeles' Chinatown on 3 January 1905, above her father's laundry. Anna May Wong's contribution to show business is a unique one; she was the first Asian female to become a star, achieving that stardom at a time when bias against her race was crushing. With determination and talent allied to her exotic beauty, she remained the only Asian female star throughout her forty-year career, never fully overcoming all prejudices in maintaining that position. Perhaps the rediscovery of her art will elevate her star to the pantheon of great performers and serve as a guiding light to Asian performers who still struggle to find their rightful place. Anna May Wong's life and career is something that is important for all who value greatly the Asian / Asian Pacific American communities' many artists and what we can all contribute!
Excerpt from : That Old Feeling: Anna May Wong
Part II of Richard Corliss' tribute to the pioneer Chinese-American star.
Daughter of the Dragon. Paramount 1931.
Based on a Fu Manchu novel by Sax Rohmer.
Daughter of the Dragon extended the curse sworn by Dr. Fu on the Petrie family to the next generation. Fu Manchu (Warner Oland), long ago injured and exiled in an attempt on Petrie Sr., returns to London and confronts the father: "In the 20 years I have fought to live," he says in his florid maleficence, "the thought of killing you and your son has been my dearest nurse." He kills the father, is mortally wounded himself and, on his deathbed, reveals his identity to his daughter Ling Moy (Wong) and elicits her vow that she will "cancel the debt" to the Fu family honor and murder the son, Ronald (Bramwell Fletcher)... who, dash it all, is madly infatuated with Ling Moy. Ronald has seen "Princess Ling Moy Celebrated Oriental Dancer" perform, and the vision has made him woozy. "I wish I could find a word to describe her," this calf-man effuses. "Exotic that's the word! And she's intriguing, if you know what I mean." In a near-clinch, Ling Moy wonders if a Chinese woman can appeal to a British toff. When he begs her to "chuck everything and stay," she asks him, "If I stayed, would my hair ever become golden curls, and my skin ivory, like Ronald's?" But the lure of the exotic is hard to shake. "Strange," he says, "I prefer yours. I shall never forget your hair and your eyes." They almost kiss ... when an off-camera scream shakes him out of his dream. It is from his girlfriend Joan (Frances Dade), and the societal message is as clear and shrill: white woman alerting white man to treachery of yellow woman. Ling Moy, a nice girl, previously unaware of her lineage, might be expected to struggle, at least briefly, with the shock of her identity and the dreadful deed her father obliges her to perform. But Wong makes an instant transformation, hissing, "The blood is mine. The hatred is mine. The vengeance shall be mine." Just before his death, Fu mourns that he has no son to kill Ronald. But, in a good full-throated reading, Wong vows: "Father, father, I will be your son. I will be your son!" The audience then has the fun of watching her stoke Ronald's ardor while plotting his death. When she is with him, pleading and salesmanship radiate from her bigeyes. But when an ally asks her why she keeps encouraging the lad, she sneers and says, "I am giving him a beautiful illusion. Which I shall crush." As a villainess, she is just getting started. Revealing her mission to Ronald, she tells him she plans to kill Joan "Because you must have a thousand bitter tastes of death before you die." (The ripe dialogue is by Hollywood neophyte Sidney Buchman, whose distinguished list of credits would include Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Here Comes Mr Jordan and The Talk of the Town.) She soon ascends on a geyser of madness as she decides on a new torture: "My vengeance is inspired tonight. You will first have the torture of seeing her beauty eaten slowly away by this hungry acid." An aide holds a hose gadget over Joan's soon-to-be-corroded face, and Ronald cries for Ling Moy to stop. Very well she says. "Ling Moy is merciful." She barks at Ronald: "Kill her!" He must decide if his favorite white girl is to be etched with acid or stabbed to death. Great stuff! Melodrama is the art of knowing how precisely too far to goThe film is a triangle: not so much of Ling Moy, Ronald and Joan as of Ling Moy, Ronald and a Chinese detective, Ah Kee, played by Sessue Hayakawa, the Japanese actor who in the teens was Hollywood's first Asian male star. He's not plausibly Chinese here, and he is in a constant, losing battle with spoken English. But he is a part of movie history, in the only studio film of the Golden Age to star two ethnically Asian actors. And he gives his emotive all to such lines as "It is the triumph of irony that the only woman I have ever deeply loved should be born of the blood that I loathe." And in the inevitable double-death finale neither the villainess nor the noble detective can survive the machinations of Hollywood justice he gently caresses the long hair of the lady he would love to have loved. "Flower Ling Moy," he says, a moment before expiring. "A flower need not love, but only be loved. As Ah Kee loved you."
The Personal Anna May Wong
This 5'7 beauty loved to study and could speak in an English accent, as well as being fluent in German and French with more than a passing knowledge of other tongues including Italian and Yiddish. For exercise she rode horses, played golf, and tennis. She liked to cook and regaled her guests with succulent Chinese dishes at frequent dinner parties. She preferred casual clothes, wearing slacks and sweaters at home, but cultivated an oriental motif in her very smart formal wardrobe. She studied singing with Welsh tenor Parry Jones before she participated in the film Limehouse Blues as George Raft's mistress. Anna loved to dance to contemporary music. Anna was quoted as saying, "I think I got my first chance because they thought I was peculiar. But, now I like to believe that the public are fond of me because they think I'm nice."
The story of Anna May Wong’s life traced the arc of triumph and tragedy that marked so many of her films. Wong's youthful ambition and screen appeal got her farther than anyone else of her race. But her race, or rather Hollywood's and America's fear of giving Chinese and other non-whites the same chance as European Americans, kept her from reaching the Golden Mountaintop. We can be startled and impressed by the success she, alone, attained. And still weask: Who knows what Anna May Wong could have been allowed to achieve if she
had been Anna May White?
Anna May Wong passed away on Feb. 3rd 1961 she was 56 years old.
Filmography:
The Red Lantern. Metro 1919. The First Born. Robertson Cole 1921.
Shame. Fox 1921. Bits of Life. Assoc. First National 1921.
The First Born. Robertson Cole 1921. Thundering Dawn. Universal 1923
The Toll of the Sea. Metro 1922 Drifting. Universal 1923 Fifth Avenue. PRC 1926.
Lillies of the Field. Assoc. First National 1924. The Thief of Bagdad. United Artists 1924
The Fortieth Door. Pathé serial 1924. The Alaskan. Paramount 1924.
Peter Pan. Paramount 1924. Forty Winks. Paramount 1925.
The Silk Bouquet/The Dragon Horse. Hi Mark Prod. 1926 The Desert's Toll. MGM 1926.
A Trip to Chinatown. Fox 1926. The Chinese Parrot. Universal. 1927.
Driven from Home. Chadwick 1927. Mr. Wu. MGM 1927.
Old San Francisco. Warner Bros. 1927. Why Girls Love Sailors. Pathé short 1927.
The Devil Dancer. United Artists 1927. Streets of Shanghai. Tiffany 1927.
Across to Singapore. MGM 1928. Pavement Butterfly (aka City Butterfly).
The City Butterfly. German 1929. Across to Singapore. MGM 1928.
The Crimson City. Warner Bros. 1928. Song. German 1928
Chinatown Charlie. First National 1928. Piccadilly, British International 1929.
Elstree Calling. British International 1930. The Flame of Love. British International 1930.
Hay Tang. German 1930. L'Amour Maitre Des Choses. French 1930.
Daughter of the Dragon. Paramount 1931. Shanghai Express. Paramount 1932.
A Study in Scarlet. World Wide 1933. Tiger Bay. Associated British 1933.
Chu Chin Chow. Gaumont 1934. Java Head. Associated British 1934.
Limehouse Blues. Paramount 1934. Daughter of Shanghai. Paramount 1937.
Hollywood Party. MGM short subject 1937. Dangerous to Know. Paramount 1938.
The Toll of the Sea. Metro 1922. The Thief of Bagdad 1924
Shanghai Express 1932
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