Louise Brooks in China, part 4

Here is a document I came across while deep mining databases in search of additional material on Louise Brooks and China. It is a 30-page essay titled "Flapper and Femme Fatale In Chinese Mirror: An Intercultural Study of Star Discourse in the 1930s Hollywood and Chinese Industries" by Katherine Hui-ling Chou. I believe the essay dates from 2001. It can be read in Chinese by following this link.

The essay including a long section on Louise Brooks, which begins this way.

Louise Brooks in China, part 3

My research trip to look through old newspapers also turned up a couple of excellent finds from China -- in Chinese. One was a feature photo, the other a bit about The Canary Murder Case. I also found a similar page on Pandora's Box and another of The Street of Forgotten Men. The photo shown below says it was taken in Hollywood at Brook's home while she was having lunch with her sister.

 
Can anyone translate the text on either of these pages? And tell me if the page featuring the image from The Canary Murder Case (shown below) is about the film itself?

Notes from yesterday's research: Finland

Yesterday, I happily spent more than 5 hours looking through microfilm of old newspapers. My search through some rolls of Russian and Ukrainian newspapers was unproductive. I couldn't find any advertisements or indicators that the papers I looked through carried film advertisements.

My search through a Finnish newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, was also unproductive, but not without promise. When I have time, I will try and continue my look through Helsingin Sanomat from the 1920s and early 1930s, because the three pages shown below suggest the search will eventually turn up something. Where there is smoke (other advertisements for silent films), there is fire (advertisements for Louise Brooks' films).

It's easy to notice the ads for Vilma Banky, Colleen Moore, Richard Dix, Harold Lloyd, Clara Bow, Billie Dove and others.

Painting of Louise Brooks featured in art exhibit in Kansas

The Kansas Women Series of Paintings by artist Jennifer Randall are on display at ARTLANDIA (9 West Ave B, Hutchinson, Kansas 67501) in Hutchinton, Kansas through August 31st. An opening reception will be held on August 20th from 5-9 pm. The artist will be present and refreshments will be served.

Paintings of notable Kansas Women such as Louise Brooks, Eva Jesse, Carrie Nation and more will be featured at the exhibit.  Here are links to a couple of earlier articles on the artist and her work, one on examiner.com (from 2010) and the other on Hutchinson News (from 2008). For those who are wondering, it is only some 52 miles from Hutchinson to Wichita, and some 141 miles from Hutchinson to Cherryvale.

William Wellman blogathon coming in September

One month from today, the William Wellman blogathon hits the web! Hosted by Now Voyaging, the blogathon runs September 10-13, and will feature nearly four dozen blogs from across the web covering many of the director's silent and sound films. The Louise Brooks Society plans on participating, and will cover Wellman's Beggars of Life (1928), starring Louise Brooks. And what's more, we'll be posting some amazing and little know material on this singular Louise Brooks film. See you on September 10th.

Louise Brooks Society on GoodReads

Are you part of the smart set? Do you enjoy reading and love Louise Brooks and the Jazz Age? Do you have an interest in the silent film era, pre-code Hollywood, or all that was going on in Berlin and Paris between the wars? How about F. Scott Fitzgerald, flapper fashion, or femme fatales? Are you on GoodReads?

The Louise Brooks Society has its own GoodReads account, and would like to connect with you.  Check out the LBS on GoodReads at https://www.goodreads.com/Louise_Brooks_Society

There, you can see what other related books the LBS is reading (Ziegfeld and His Follies: A Biography of Broadway's Greatest Producer by Cynthia and Sara Brideson ), has read (Wild Bill Wellman: Hollywood Rebel by William Wellman Jr. ), or wants to read (The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks by Tracey Goessel).

And if you go through the LBS book shelves, you might also pick up a recommendation or two, such as Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture by Bram Dijkstra, or Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino by Emily W. Leider, or Jazz Age Beauties: The Lost Collection of Ziegfeld Photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston, by Robert Hudovernik. There is a lot to check out.

And while you are on GoodReads, don't forget to add these key titles to your your own GoodReads bookshelf -- and give them a rating too!

Louise Brooks, by Barry Paris

Lulu in Hollywood, by Louise Brooks

Louise Brooks: Portrait of an Anti Star, by Rolland Jaccard

Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever, by Peter Cowie

Dear Stinkpot: Letters from Louise Brooks, by Jan Wahl

The Diary of a Lost Girl (Louise Brooks edition), by Thomas Gladysz

The Parade's Gone By, by Kevin Brownlow