To the Editor of the "Norru-Ciuxa' Dany News"
Sin—A Chinese film, entitled "Kuo Fong." is being shown at present at the Lyric Theatre, corner of Kweichow and Peking' Roads. 'This film is very well sulted to serve a means of rendering foreigners little bit' more intimately acquainted with the latest events of China's inner history. Therefore, we consider it as our duty to bring it the attention of foreign residents interested in China.
'We translate the Chinese title of this firn into English as "China's Troubles." China is represented in it by two girls, both of whom are students of a girls' school in the country. The Chinese race, as everybody knows,. is, by tradition, insellectully extremely active, "Therefore the events happening in educa ional circles express very well the temper of the Nation, One of these girls is placed between two men. The one represents real China the other the foreignized type of Chinese. The one is her husband, the other her lover. The lover takes hold of her whilst she is going to college in Shanghai, Her elder sister 'a8 well as her mother, who is a school rineipal, are unable to prevent her from becoming a victim of the uncongenial foreign environment. On her return to her native place in the Jcountry, she divorces her husband, ' gets married to her' "Jlover and foreignizes even the father and mother of her new husband. Her own mother loses her position as schoo! principal and the school-girls begin to powder thelr} faces. Modern shops are opened. Lovesmaking becomes general. The whole country district is turned upside down.
'Just at the time when the original constitution of Chinese society is on the way of going to pieces, the New Lite Movement provides a' new outlet for the manifestation of China's [racial characteristics. The elder sis-for, the mother and the divorced husband regain their influence. The mother again takes up her educa {tonal work. The elder sister post Jpones her marriage, in order to be Jable to concentrate her energy upon her social reform work. "At the end, we see her hand grasping that of her future husband, who is also deter mined to sacrifice his personal sires on the altar of the welfare of the community.
There is indeed nothing more typleally Chinese than this type of union between man and woman. We would suggest to the United Photoplays boasting Service Ca. to arrange special pet formances of this film for foreigners, jults as well as school-children, }For these performances special commentaries in English should be wut. ten and a competent lecturer should Janalyse, for the benefit of the foreign audience, the psychological back-[around of this firn story.
The photography, in this film, is much better than that of most Chie nese films, and the story is told in an entertaining manner. The star Jactress is Miss Yuen Lin-yn, whom most foreigners have recently got to now only because she committed suicide, [Shanghai, May 13.
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