Passenger list extract from a Pan American Trans-Pacific Clipper flight from Hong Kong to Honolulu via Manila. The two young Soong girls appear to be from the Chinese government's TV Soong's family. Presumably the two adult females are escorts.
No doubt someone will be able to identify where 251 Repluse Bay was or still is?
Date picture taken
24 May 1940
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I'm not sure about the
I'm not sure about the address, but here's confirmation they're the daughters of T.V. Soong:
Married. Mary Jane Soong, 23, Wellesley-educated daughter of Financier T. V. Soong, onetime (1945-47) Premier of Nationalist China, and niece of Mme. Chiang Kaishek; and Charles K. Eu, 27, Columbia University student; in Manhattan.
Time Magazine, May 4, 1953
Identity of a passenger
"Laura Y. Chang" (Lo-yi Chang 张乐颐) was the maiden name of Mrs. T.V. Soong. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._V._Soong
Soong sisters
"One married for money, one married for love, and one married for China."
Or something like that!