The Archive · 1936

Father in Canton

Returning from her trip to South China and the Philippines, cad intending to take up the study "of 'Mandarin here and to make trips Into the Interior of China, Miss Anna 'May Wong, Chinese cinema actre: s, arrived in' Shanghai on Thuveday morning in the s. President Coolidge, She expects to remain in Shanghat for about a month and then will go on to Peiping and other points of interest in North China, After that, she said, her plans are indefinite, 'Miss Wong, who is on her first <cip to China, and who passed through here a little over, a month ago, ties been visiting hor'father in Canton. He met her there instead of at the village' where he lives. It was the first time in several. years that they had seen each other.

'Whil in Hongkong Miss Wong caught the clu in the cold winter that the Colony experienced this year. So she went to Manila, she said, in order to get a little sunshine, She' found a great deal of it there, she went on, and in addition enjoyed herself tremendously while in the city. She was the dinner guess of 'Mr, Manuel Quezon, President of the Commonwealth, and' algo met a mim ber of other oficial, Returning to Hongicong, she rade short trip to Macao, an island chat she liked tremendously. Then she slipped off to Canton to see father, and she congre\ulutes, herself on the fact that she managed to make the trip secretly, avoiding cameramen and reporters,

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