Reports that in future all travellers intending to visit or pass through Mánchoukuo would have to obtain their visas in Japan, were denied yesterday by an official of the Japanese Embassy in Shanghai, who explained that the report might have arisen owing to the fact that there had been some difficulties during the past few months in connection with the issuing of visas for Jewish refugees from Germany, who intended to travel via Russia to This had necessitated, he stated, the opening of a visa office in Berlin as the Russian Government had refused to grant visas to any of the unless they were in pos-Session of a Manchoukuoan visa. For foreigners in Shanghai, he added, the conditions were the same as before, visas being obtainable in Dairen, Peiping and Tientsin, There was a possibility that in the immediate future a Manchoukuo visa office would be opened in Shanghai, he continued, but plans were not definite at the moment.
With the opening of this office, he concluded, foreigners intending to travel through Manchoukuo would be able to secure their visas before commencing their journey.
Norma Malone... Dorothy Lamour Dave Guerney Lloyd Nolan los Major Martingale "Punkins" Mary Ida.
Shorty one Nazarro With the Mississipi River as a background, the good old show boat as the stage, and the wafd famous melody (from which, incidentally the film took its title) as an inspiration, "St. Louis Blues" arrived at the Nanking Theatre yesterday. With it came all those hardy annuals such as the struggling show boat captain, plenty of southern gentlemen, a large quota of the negro population of the Southern states and last but not least, Miss Dorothy Lamour, who, if she did not display any marked histrionic talent, certainly displayed (exposed would be a better description) some of thóse curves for which she is famous Curves, however, although they may be a valuable adjunct to any production, do not make a film and this applies to "St. Louis Blues." Here we have a Broadway singer, played by Miss Lamour, who tires of being billed as "Aloma," South Seas singer, and stows away on board the good ship "St. Louis Blues," skippered by Mr. Lloyd Nolan, to escape from her manager. She is continually rejected when she tries to appear as one of the ship's company and when at last she does get her big chance she is displayed to the audience in a sarong, as a girl from the South Seas.
Naturally Miss Lamour does not like this, nor does she greet her former manager with any display of enthusiasm when he attempts to bring an injunction against the show boat if she appears at the critical St. Louis performance by way of which Mr. Nolan intends to go to New York to make his and Miss Lamout's fortune. By devious ways the show is carried through and the last glimpse of Miss Lamour as she fits among the southern audience is certainly a delectable one, One hesitates to think what would have happened
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