Mr. J. P. McEvoy on His Impressions Almost immediately following the departure of Mr, AI Rockett, Fox producer who spent several "weeks here, Mr. J. P, McEvoy, Paramount producer, arrived here on Tuesday 'AMlernoon, May 7, in the Empress of japan, accompanied by his son, Mr, D. didn't come thousands of miles from home just to join in a private Little fight like that one," said Mr. J.P. McEvoy, humorist, scenario Waiter and author of "Show Girl." He was parrying the inevitable ques-lon which faces visitors to Shanghé continued. never saw two countries ess. alike, I'll admit that, 1 haven't seen mich of China so far, naturally, but I expect to go on with the same impression. One thing in Shanghai is a great relief to me—English is spoken here, Oh, you don't see it everywhere, but at' least you know just about where you are. T was absolutely at sea in Tokyo most fof the time until I got a guide, and then we went everywhere, You now how it is in Japan—you look a eign, and it's very pretty, but what does it mean to you? What oes it look like? An explosion of matches. And for all you know it stys "Broadway" or "No. smoking" or "Hot dogs ten cents"—there's no way of finding out. No, it's much Mr, McEvoy shook his head sadly.
is a squarely-built man with a shock of gray hair and eyes that interested in everything here that 1s 0 strange to him, His son Dennis Joined in eagerly.
can't understand how it is they all speak such good English." ne said. "Every once in a while T run into some Chinese who talks much better than I do. Sure, I'm crazy about it here." "1 expect to stay Tonger than Dad does—maybe I'l foot around for a year or so in the Orient, What's the hurry?" Dennis is seven teen and is likely to follow in the footsteps of his father, who is a jack of all writing trades. Mr. J. P. MeEvoy himself began his career at slipped into writing the jingles on the cards, and gathered experience which was to stand him in good stead when he write his first book, "Show Girl" Since then he has written numerous extravaganza sketches, plays, books and syndicated articles, and is now affiliated with Paramount Studios in Hollywood. The younger McEvoy has. just completed a year as reporter on a Hearst paper in Sqn Francisco,
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