>>56683857 Miss Roberta Brinklow
Miss Brinklow is the woman from the London Missionary Society, a passenger on the hijacked plane. She is self-righteous and tough-minded. Nothing fazes her since she feels she is doing God’s work, and it should not be easy. She tackles the Tibetan language at Shangri-la so she can convert the natives. Always direct and blunt in her opinions, she questions Chang about the religion of the lamas, objecting to their broad-minded tolerance and the loose morals of the natives.
>>56683908 Lo-Tsen
Lo-Tsen is a Manchu princess whose bridal party was lost in the mountains. She entered Shangri-la in 1884 as a girl of 18 and is now 70 though she still looks 18. She is an expert keyboard artist of western music. The only woman lama postulate at Shangri-la, she runs off with Mallinson and dies in the escape. Many men have been in love with her, including Chang and Conway. Her motivations are unknown because she is only seen through the eyes of other characters.
>>56683980 Henry Barnard (Chalmers Bryant)
Henry Barnard is the American passenger kidnapped and brought to Shangri-la, a fact he doesn’t mind since he is being sought by the police. His New York investment company’s financial failure cost investors millions of dollars. He travels under an alias and claims the crash wasn’t his fault; he was just speculating like everyone else. Barnard is good-natured and makes jokes. He likes the tolerance and freedom of Shangri-la and decides to stay there, especially when he discovers gold in the valley. He was a mining engineer and tells the natives how they can extract more gold. He thinks he will somehow use the gold to get back his status in the world. He is found out by Mallinson who sees newspaper clippings dropped by Barnard.
It checks out.
