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JARVIS---Chicago (delighted with 99.9% confidence)
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Date Posted: Tue, April 02 2019, 3:10:00
http://www.lordheath.com/Harry_Lowe_Jr.html
Lordheath originally had the correct screenshot for "Washee Ironee" for the "Chinese boy from laundry shop" but the actor is definitely NOT Harry Lowe Jr. from Imperial County CA.
Since the usual sources name him as the actor, this is an ANM "EXCLUSIVE".
Neither is it his brother, HERBERT LOWE.
His cousin, ALBERT LOWE Jr. (child performer), is still possible if the actor is named LOWE and from Imperial County CA.
Also still possible is another child actor named "WONG" (probably from the LA Area) as per MALTIN and BANN.
Why are HARRY (and HERBERT) LOWE eliminated?
They were in Canton, China from June 1932 until June 1941.
That makes it impossible for either of them to be in "Washee Ironee", filmed in CA in 1934.
From the"Calexico Chronicle" (1932 June 2 p.4), the entire family left CA for Canton, China where the Dad was planning to open a paint and varnish factory. It is difficult to tell from the article if this was to be a permanent relocation, but the youngest daughter, GLADYS LOWE, was born there in 1936.
The newspaper quote below:
"Harry Lowe and Family to Sail Next Wednesday
Harry Lowe, Chinese interpreter at the International line for the past several years, and proprietor of the Paris meat market in Mexicali, is preparing to leave here next Wednesday with his family, returning to Canton, China, where he will go into business. Mr. Lowe will sail from San Pedro on the President Hoover and will take his plans for a paint factory which he expects to open in Canton in an endeavor to distribute paint and lacquer in China in a wholesale business. Mr. Lowe, a brother of Albert Lowe of the Bank of America here, has made many friends both in Mexicali and in Calexico where he has lived in recent years. He has officiated in thousands of cases of Chinese people crosing the international boundary at this port."
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CC19320602.2.44&e=-------en--20-CC-1-byDA-txt-txIN-%22harry+lowe%22-------1 (free site).
The most conclusive evidence is the ship's passenger list returning from Hong Kong on June 16, 1941. The LOWE family is on board minus the Dad who returned either sooner? or later?; he died in San Diego in July 1966.
Look at both pages of the passenger list linked below (free site), especially page 2 column #22. It asks the question: When was your last departure (from the USA)?
The LOWEs' answer is "June 12, 1932."
This family was very, very fortunate as the Japanese had already invaded China in 1937 and slaughtered thousands. Their passenger ship was returning to the USA just 6 months before the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor, HI on December 7, 1941! I don't know, but this turmoil may have had something to do with the Dad not returning with the family in 1941.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GTMW-3D5?i=914&cc=1916084 first page of passenger list (free site).
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GTMW-362?i=915&cc=1916084 second page passenger list (free site).
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HARRY LOWE Jr. ELIMINATED from Washee Ironee