Love is a Many Splendored Thing

Film Screening

FREE EVENT

23rd July 2011
8pm at Heritage Walk (Jalan Tan Hiok Nee)

Arguably Han Suyin’s most famous novel. The book was made into a film in 1955 titled Love Is A Many Splendored Thing starring William Holden and Jennifer Jones winning four Oscars for Best Picture, Best Song, Best Score and Best Costume.

Han Suyin spent about 10 years in Johor Bahru later working in a clinic above Universal Pharmacy at No. 24, Jalan Ibrahim. Universal Pharmacy was then the place where people went for all their pharmaceutical needs as it and where patients consulted Dr. Elisabesth.

Conversant in Hakka, Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay , French and English, she is well remembered by the older generations of Johoreans. She now lives in lausanne, Switzerland, and maintains her name as Dr. Elisabeth C.K. Comber.

The building that Universal occupied has been demolished and is now a vacant lot opposite Johor Central Store.