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Romero, and Lionel Atwill. Yardley was retained by MGM on a generous
contract as technical advisor and became friendly with Powell. The film
premiered at New York's Capitol Theatre on October 25, 1935. The New
York Times reviewed it as a "lively and amusing melodrama."
In 1938, after a brief and unsuccessful fling at real-estate speculation
in Queens, New York, Yardley was hired by Chiang Kai-shek at about
$10,000 a year to solve the messages of the Japanese armies then
invading China. In Chungking, he at first passed himself off as an
exporter of hides, but no one in the small and tight-knit foreign colony
there was fooled for very long. He seems to have enjoyed some success in
solving the Japanese ciphers, which appear to have been columnar
transposition of the kana symbols.
By then he was changing. He was basically an attractive personality
who enjoyed simple masculine pleasures. He would rise at dawn to go
duckhunting, shot a good enough game of golf to have won the Greene
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