Western Easterners! Chinatown Cameos
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- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
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Story
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- 2 / 5
- Summary
- Pathe Intertitles - "Along the Western American seaboard, the Chinese problem is always present. From the beginning they follow the unchanging east in dress".
"Introduce your modern western habits - your exercises - your discipline - still these little "Western Easterners" remain the children of the Orient".
"The Chinese telephone girl, say in San Francisco, absorbs little of the West - notwithstanding its machinery -"
"These girls must memorize the names of all the subscribers - for the Chinese call by name instead of number!"
"And you can never eradicate the fortune teller - a respected member of the Chinese community -".
"Where East meets West -". - Keywords
- Customs and traditions
- Written sources
- J. Hammerton ‘For Ladies Only?' (Hastings, 2001) p129.
Pathe Eve 246-280 Boxfile Issue sheet
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- Length of story (in feet)
- 160
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How to cite this record
'Western Easterners! Chinatown Cameos', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 258, 13 May 1926. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/331422 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)