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Figure 1. Adelphi Hotel, Singapore, in the mid-1920s. Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. Pacific Pursuits: Postcards, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. Gelatin silver print.
Figure 2. Singapore’s cinemas in the 1920s: Palladium and Liberty Hall. From ‘The Way They House the Pictures in Distant Singapore,’ Motion Picture News, 15 May, 1920, 4204.
Figure 3. (a) and (b). Sparrows (1926) was exhibited in Singapore in early 1927, causing some controversy. Sally (1925) starring Colleen Moore screened at Singapore’s Victoria Theatre in July 1927. ‘The Cinema Bill,’ Malaya Tribune, 13 October, 1927, 8.
Figure 4. A Peranakan woman sporting a characteristic mix of fashions: bobbed hair and lace kebaya. From Peter Lee, Sarong Kebaya: Peranakan Fashion in an Interconnected World (Singapore: Asian Civilisations Museum, 2014), 263.
Figure 5. Dulcie Foston, left, in a play staged by YWCA in Singapore. Photo published in Morning Tribune, 24 July 1936, 12.
