Leonard Strong His 1932 novel "The Brothers" was filmed in 1947 by the Scottish director David MacDonald; it starred Patricia Roc. One reviewer commented, "In a break from tradition, the film substitutes the novel's unhappy ending with an even unhappier one." Strong collaborated on or contributed to such filmscripts as "Haunted Honeymoon" (1940; a Dorothy L. Sayers story about Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane), "Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill" (1948), and "Happy Ever After" (1954). "Kirkus Reviews" asserted in 1935, "L. A. G. Strong can be counted on for a nostalgic picture of the call of the wild, and spins a
A Chinese Honeymoon honeymoon in China and inadvertently break the kissing laws (reminiscent of "The Mikado"). The Emperor seeks a bride who will marry him "for himself alone," so he despatches an English skipper, who has been promoted to the post of Lord High Admiral of the Chinese fleet, in search of such a woman. But the conditions are rather hard, for the high position of the Emperor is withheld, and the unlucky admiral has to pretend that he represents a billposter. The admiral returns from his quest without success. As a lingering death is the penalty of his failure it need hardly