Speaking of Chinese magazines on the Internet Archive, I also came across a bunch of issues of The Liangyou (良友 The Young Companion) magazine, which was published in Shanghai
and founded by Wu Liande (伍聯德). Aimed toward the youth market, the magazine's readers were evidently interested in modern life, movie stars, and contemporary culture from the United States and Europe. Some 174 issues were published through 1945. Captions on its many interior photographs were often both in Chinese and
English. I don't read or speak Chinese, but that didn't matter, as the magazines are heavily illustrated and attractive to look though.
I looked over the page of covers and noticed three that featured the Chinese - American movie star Anna May Wong. (She is a favorite, and I have read a couple of books on her.) From what I could tell, the actress only appeared on the cover of the magazine. There did not seem to be any interior articles, except for a one-page illustrated piece in the January 1929 issue.
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I flipped through about a dozen issues dating from 1929 and 1930, hoping to find something on Louise Brooks, but came up empty handed. I did find other illustrated pieces on American movie stars, like those pictured below. Perhaps I will look some more and find something on Brooks. Is that Richard Arlen and Anita Page pictured below?
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I also noticed this back cover to the August 1930 issues, which includes Lupe Velez. Can anyone tell me what this page is for? Is it a promotion or advertisement for something?
The best thing I found was this four page spread depicting various American movie stars of the time. It is titled "The Well Known Screen Actresses." It dates May of 1931. I thought Brooks might have been included, but she is not. (Certainly, her earlier American films were shown in China as much as any other American actress. But that was a couple of years in the past. Perhaps she had been absent for too long from American screens?) A few of these actresses - Kay Johnson, Mary Lawlor, Catherine Moylan, Molly O'Day - are unfamiliar to me.
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