The 2023 Charlie Chan Family Home Newsletter
Welcome to our 6th annual recap of happenings throughout this year at Webmaster Rush Glick’s website, The Charlie Chan Family Home. To see what happened in the world of Detective Charlie Chan, click here: 2023 CHARLIE CHAN ANNUAL NEWSLETTER. Inside you’ll find: “Life would be a dreary waste, if there was no thing called loyalty.” (The…
A Christmas Greeting to all from Cleveland, Ohio.
Isn’t it great today we have iPhones, Androids, Ipads and GPS. No need to bring a passenger along on a road trip to unfold that map and give you the wrong directions. A simple smart phone will get you anywhere. Still, at some point you’ll need to look up and see if you’re on the…
Win BIG! Play the ponies at Australia’s Melbourne Cup with Charlie Chan.
I believe it started around 20 years ago, when Charlie Chan Family Home Webmaster (and apparent Tycoon) Mr. Rush Glick started giving away a cash-prize each November during Australia’s Melbourne Cup Horse Race: the price of a bet…IT’S FREE! Each year, the first Tuesday of November (November 7th this year) Australians gather for the Melbourne…
October is National Book Month! Hmm…what to read?
Well considering you’ve landed here, I really must put in a pitch (to those who never read them) for the six original Charlie Chan novels. We’ll get to that later. However, first let me share four destinations to visit when picking out your next mystery read! Watch for the “Hint” following each destination. 1. JANET…
Ellery J. Chun and his dapper invention, The Aloha Shirt!
Good News! Sumer doesn’t official end until Saturday, September 23d, when fall drops in. Still weeks to go with plenty of hot sunny days left to work on that golden tan. So be bold! Show off in style and fashion with that famous embodiment of summertime and laid back island life…The Aloha Shirt! Now I…
Celebrate Earl Derr Biggers’ birthday at “Earl’s,” the new Halekulani beachside bar!
This month we celebrate Ohio Author and Charlie Chan creator Earl Derr Biggers’ 139th birthday (August 26, 1884) heading to Waikiki Beach on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, and the Halekulani Hotel’s newest edition: Earl’s Beachside Bar inside their famed House Without A Key Restaurant. The Halekulani Hotel (translation, “place befitting heaven”) is among the…
Book Release: The Wisdom Within Earl Derr Biggers’ Charlie Chan. Finally!
“Why, Mr. Chan here is a detective, isn’t he? A detective on a vacation. If you’ve ever read a mystery story you know that a detective never works so hard as when he’s on a vacation. He’s like the postman who goes for a long walk on his day off.” Bob Eden, The Chinese Parrot, 1926,…
Happy Birthday to you: Mr. ZIP celebrates his 60th today!
Happy Birthday Mr. ZIP, July 1st, 1963! If you’ve been around a bit (say a little over 50 years) you might remember when once upon a time the U.S. Postmaster General held a Cabinet seat putting him IN LINE TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! The then named Post Office Department (P.O.D.) was actually…
Lucky you live Hawaii! That is unless you are like Mr. Smith, the beachcomber.
Beachcomber: traveler, wander, loafer, hobo, vagabond, tramp, homeless person. If you’ve read the fourth Charlie Chan novel, The Black Camel (1929), then you are familiar with “Smith, the beachcomber.” Mr. Archie Smith a hopeful artist returning from the South Seas painting the scenery, got off a passing vessel intending to leave Hawaii. However, he got…
Gol Darn it! That black camel was “unbid,” not “unbidden.”
OK, I admit it, goldarn is actually one word. But I already typed it (and I like it better separated) so we’ll leave that alone. However, what REALLY irks me is a famous misquote I hear–and see–over and over again! Here is the quote from the 1929 novel, The Black Camel. Charlie Chan has just…
Birds of a feather: Tony the Parrot & Cookie the Cockatoo.
History doth repeat itself! Once upon a time Author Earl Derr Biggers wrote a novel, The Chinese Parrot (1926). This second in the Detective Charlie Chan series featured an Australian Gray Parrot named “Tony,” who spoke–you guessed it–Chinese. And in more recent times Biggers’ biographer, Author Barbara Gregorich, wrote about another bird: the sensation of…
Mission Improbable: Slovakia & The Czech Repubic to find the four lost Chan Films
Good morning Mr./Ms. (your name here.) Your mission is to take a team to Slovakia and The Czech Republic to locate and retrieve the remaining lost Charlie Chan films. The following was intercepted surrounding the film Charlie Chan in Paris on Rush Glick’s Charlie Chan Family Home site and explains why: “…Charlie Chan in Paris was…
Chabing. The Chan actress who once held General Douglas MacArthur’s heart.
Ever seen the movies The Chinese Ring (1947) or Shanghai Chest (1948)? Both Charlie Chan films staring Actor Roland Winters as Detective Chan? Well, they also features a lesser know bit actress born Isabel Rosario Cooper, who went under the stage name Chabing. She was also know as “Dimples” to one General Douglas MacArthur! February brings…
One other “Earl” was gifted a Key to The City of Honolulu.
HAPPY 2023 everyone…we made it! As previously reported last year (my August 2022 Biggers’ Birthday post), in 1925 the Honolulu Tourism Bureau presented Author Earl Derr Biggers with an honorary Key to The City of Honolulu. This was in appreciation for the overwhelming good will and publicity his first Charlie Chan novel, The House Without…
The Postman on Holiday 