Tsuru Aoki — An American From Tokio (1918) 🇺🇸

We were sure it was Su-ru 0-key, pronounced with the accent on the two first syllables. And we went on calling her that, never dreaming that it was all wrong.

Until we heard that Sessue Hayakawa wasn't that at all, but Susie — oh, something. And that discouraged us for the other. That's why we argue that Tsuru is a popular personality in pictures. Hard on the ears, but easy on the eyes. Despite the fact that we can't pronounce her name, regardless of all our mispronunciations and tongue-twistings, we go to see her.

Little Miss Aoki is all the more charming in her Japanese dress since she has become thoroughly Americanized. Just as her familiarity with the American dances has enabled her to do the popular dances of the Occident gracefully.

Born in Tokio, she came to America with her uncle, Otto Kawakami, a Japanese actor of reputation, who placed her in a convent at Pasadena, Cal. She began her stage career with the Scoveli Juvenile Stock Company of California in A Daughter of Isis. Later she starred in a Majestic picture, "The Oath of O'Tsuru San," and soon after joined the New York Motion Picture forces under Tom Ince. Miss Aoki played in many of the Hayakawa Lasky pictures, and when the talented Jap formed his own company she left to continue in his support.

The Answer Man tells curious film followers every month that Tsuru Aoki is in private life Mrs. Sessue Hayakawa.

Little Miss Aoki is all the more charming in her Japanese dress since she has become thoroughly Americanized.

In private life she is Mrs. Sessue Hayakawa.

Collection: Photoplay Magazine, October 1918