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produced midst the sõnule ery of interior Chinn in the on of Paine Hing, financial i wagnate of the Calestial republic. Plodge Hing is dae of the richest man -lo China. · Bluested at Columbia University, be la alive

STOWAWAY SNAKES,

FOUND AT COVENT GARDEN

A fairly large snake ban beats The newest organisation to to the advantage of bringing found in Covent Garden ba enter the fickt of film production is | American improvements to his saltsman who was opening a langs the James B. Leong Productions, native country. He is absent | banana crate, but it will never gut Inc. with offices at 1230 Maral- Erpor "yis office sa head of the to the Zoo, for it was killed and Strong Bldg. Los Angeles, Calis Reantung, Tramway Company, in Bang into a dust heap. Agcord- fornia, which was incorporated ordertoinvestigate the possibilities ing to one of the fruit merchants under the laws of the State of of motion pictures. The Kwan- of the Garden it is no uncommon California, 27th October 1919, tung Company is at Canton, and experience for small animals of with James B. Leong, President, when established by Judge Hing, warm countries to "come in with, and General Manager; Dr. Sio was the planeer slectric railway the fruit." These specimens are Yee Chong, Secretary; Low Sqat at China.

really animal stowaways which Kai, Treasurer: Chow Kim, Dir-| ** Capital galore awaits the fint are concealed in the bananas or octor; T. A. Russell, Director. producer to come to our country." other fruit when it is being pack- Most of the capital stock has said Hing, while inspecting the ad, and as they are kept in the been subscribed by prominent Famous Playars Lasky studio at hot hold of the ship there is Chinese merchants of Los | Hollywood. "Our people have nothing to prevent them from Angeles anŽ

San Francisco cónfidence in our native stories | reaching this country alive. "För American interests are also rẹ, and scenery. It is an “absolutely some years,” said one of the presented.

antonebed field. Our people will salesmen to a Globe representa- The object of the company back to the limit the "first bra, “one of the merchants here, is to produce high-class Chinese producer to establish a worth Mr. Greco, kept a sort of, minis- pictures of mål Chinese life. while studia in Chira.”

ture Zoo on the roof of his market. China and its people always have To produce Chinese play We have had lizards, spiders, been misunderstood. Most of us correctly is not an easy task.aren opossSUDA,

Often if the bava a vague idea of the Flowery One must be familiar with the specimens are uncommon they Kingdom where we would expect Northern and Southern part of are kept till they can be given to to find a sort of chop suey and at the country before he can put out naturalists; but the best plan for little of what we see in Chiostown a production suitable for the any budding naturalists if they' on a larger scale. We are apt to entire Chinese community. The want specimens is to get permis forget that China, in addition costumes and ways of the sion from one of the salesmen to to being picturesque, has Northern and Southern part of [be present when the cratOS AID also sprung some of the big-China are entirely different. Mr. being opened." One of the mer- gest practical surprises in history. James B. Leong, at the head of chants at present bas A huge China was once what the Unitech hiery company, was connected spider, about four inches in States now is the birthplace of with an English newspaper in breadth, which has been in inventions. Paper was manu-Chins for five years and was (eardboard box for many months. factured there in the third century Secretary for a large corporation He came over in a bunch of of the Christian era. Tea was in China for about the same time. Į bananas and died recently. It is produced a century later. He is a graduate of the Munoie not that the animals eat the Europe had enjoyed communica Business University. Muncio, fruit, but they climb in among he tion with China, it would have Indiana, and bas devoted some bananas to bide or warm them- learned the art of painting many time to the motion picture work, Jasives, and are too terrinet to centuries bele it did and who Mr. Leong did the technical work (come out when the stalka are cot can say what might have been for the following Chinese produc- (down. So they are taken to the

ship. the result? A thousand yearstions:

Then, when they have ago the Chinese made designs on

Broken Blossoms," D. W. been placed in the ripening rooms wood. Printing from stone was a Grifith: Co-Technical Director, below the Covent Garden Market, still earlier industry among them The Red Lantern" Metro: "The j the heat gets too much for them In China, also was gunpowder Pagan. Ud." Jesse D. Hampton: and they emerge, and usually a first invented-as invention by The Mysne Faces. Triangle: little buat begins if the specimen which alas! so many thoughts "All in » Night,” Lasky.

is worth it.

Some years ago have been destroyed. This same

Leons being a native quite a large number of lisards, astonishing people produced the speak the Mandarin and Can-snakes, and dwarf tortoises were mariner's compass in the fourth tonese dialects fluently, which among the collection, some of century; porcelain in the third: enables him to travel in his own which were given away to ladies chess and playing cards in the country and learn the ways and as pets. Many of the reptile and twelfth; and silk embroidery in customs of the Northern and animal stowaways, however, do almost pre-bistorical times. An Southern part of China Knowing not come from Jamaica with empire, therefore, of such vast so well the history of his own the frait. bu: Arz antiquity, overwhelming popula-country and people-togetherwith aboard the ship at ports after tion, and great achievements must he technique of the motion they have left Jamaica. This be, despite its faults, & country a picture work-he will produce his | has been discovered because absorbing interest.

wn pictures not only for the many smaller snakes bave arriv The honesty and industry of welfare of China and the Chinese ed a: Covent Garden with their Chinese merchants have been people but also the world at large. fangs drawn presumably by tha

Diversally recognized by

The Porcelain Bell of China"natives of the district in which America as marked character is the title of an orinal story by they are found. Among bananas isies of the Chinese race: while James B. Leong, and will be from the Canaries small lizards the efficiency and ingenuity of dramatized by well known called "geckos, are frequently American business web and scenario writers and the author found. They are from three to motion picture producers have for the purpose of depicting, on tive or six inches in length, of heen bailed by the Chinese as a the screen, the "discovenes of drab colour, and have fanshaped model in the industrial and com-porcelain. the marvellous disfees. At present one is roaming mercial field. This mutual recovery which has benefited the about the ripening cellars avoid- spect and good will should lead people of the entire world. |ing capture. The most interest- with this ing visitors however, which bate to an expansion of business re- Closely interwoven lationship between the two great theme, which has great so far come to Covent Garden. greatest potential countries ÜB historical and educations! merit, are two Australian opossume, each side of the Pacific.

is an intensely romantic and about the size of small China and America are each remarkably thrilling story of rarats. For some time they form other's best market. Chinese in and intrigue. This production led the principal attraction to the dustry for motion pictures, is should easily prove to be the miniature Zoo on the roof, where bound to develop sooner or later. most popular and best paying they played about in their cage. The better class of Chinese people photoplay, the wonder of modern Other finds among the fruit

which are quite common are anxious to see pitores of real ( time.

This spectacular production all -kinds of botterflies, put their country in a different costing more than $250,000 a dragonflies, and unknown wing light than that in which it, bas greater photoplay than "The Red ed insects. These do not live hazetofore been seen. Practically ĮLawtern.”

long, for the cold ends their glittering career before they can be acclimatised.

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