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THE CHINESE

THEATRE.

CONVENTIONS OF A DRAMA.

THE ART OF MEI LAN FANG-

In every Chinese town and vil.

·lage "plays are acted all the" your round, write the Peking corres pondent of the Times. In the big cities the theatres are always full; in the small towns and villages the plays are generally acted in the middle of the road by travelling companies, who bring their proper ties with them. The site chosen is often in front of a temple, so that the gods can get a good view. Any great national fenat day will be the occasion of a pastor same local dignitary will hire a company, to perform before him.

In the important cities there are hundreds of theatres, and on each stage is a great number of people In the centre are the actors. On one side at the orchestra, perhaps four or five men, on the other are small boys who chatter and are sent off on messages. The scone shifters remove tables and chairs in the middle of the most impassioned songs; even a baby of two may sit on the stage all by itself, perfectly happy, with no one paying alten tion to it. The centre of the stage has generally a big chair (or BOG times a throne) and in front of it small table behind there is an exquisitely embroidered curtain, of brilliant green and orange or red, with a dragon or a peacock as the centre of the design. The chair and table probably have covers of de saine colour, but other scenery there is none.

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Operaile Drama, Most Chinese plays are operatius with talking and singing in them, and the greatest actors are those who can either sing or dance well. The drama, as such, has been known to the Chinese only since about 1300, when it was introduced by the Mongols; but the ballet has Leen known since the time of Cost tucius. Dances were held in honour of the gods, songs were

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THE WHITE" RISIANS.

BIG LOSS ADMITTED.

INTERET WITH PROMIN OFFICER

IN SHANGHAI,

A prominent Russian offer, who also holds the rank of Lieutenant General in the Chinese Army General K. P. Nechade—is now

JAPANESE ROYAL ROMANCE.

PRINCE AND COMMONER'S DAUGHTER.

BROUGHT ABOUT MY DOWAGER EMPRESS.

TOKYO, Jan 90th. The wedding of Prince Chichibu, heir apparent to the throne of Japan, and Miss Setsuko Mutsu-

on a brief visit to Shanghai, says | dairs, daughter of this Japanese the North China Daily News, Ambassador in Washington, proba. bly will take plaes in September or October next in the Akasaka de tached patre in Tokyo.

Having lost a bag in the fighting of 1928, "General Rechaieff usually spends most of his time in Tsingtao in a villa presented to him by Mar- shal Chang Chung Chang. For his services in war he has many de corations, and, in addition to his rank of Reutenant-general, he has bees prometa to be a professor an the Chitme General Staff.

Questioned as to the dissolution of the White Russian group of the Shantung Army and of the arrest of General Chekhoff (head of the armoured: trains) and of General Mikhailoff (Chief of the Staff), | General Nechaieff said:-

These rumours

are incorrect, Generals Chekhoff and Mikhailoff have only been relieved from their respective posts, and so far as I know they are now in Tientsin. Several units of the Russian troops have been demobilized, including the Russian infantry brigade and the military school The cavalry brigade under Semenoff and the armoured train division remain untouched.

The change in personnel and or gasimation, of the Russian group may partly be attributed to a des creased

standard of efficiency which resulted from the fact that several months. It has to be ad- pay had not been forthcoming for mitted that in the latest fighting the Kasian troops have met with several reverses, such for instance ns the loss of four armoured trains on the Lunghai Railway.

An officia, close to the Imperial Household Department, while em- phasizing that final preparations have not yet been made, told the United Press that the wedding is almost certain to take place before coronation of the Emperor Hiro- hito at Kyoto on November 10th.

An Imperial messenger will be dispatched to Washington soon to notify Ambassador Isuco Matsu- daira of the betrothal and arrange, for the return of Setsuko to Tokyo for the wedding. It is likely the Ambassador and Mrs. Masadaira will accompany their daughter.

According To Court Ritual.""" according to the fixed court ritual, The wedding will be performed

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ritualists, and will not be of a re- charge of the Imperiai ligious nature although it will par- take of the nature of the Shinto faith, official religion of Japan and the faith of the Court. Budd- hist pricats will have nothing to Imperial Family does not subscribe do with the ceremony, since the

to the Buddhist faith, the religion of a majority of the Japanese.

There probably will be no honey- moon and after the ceremony the

Young couple will make their home in, the new Imperial detached palace recently built for Chichibu.

monies will cover a period of about The wedding and attendiat care-

three days and there will be madj functions in honour of the prospec- of preliminary arrangements wi tive bride and groom. A number have to be made as there is no

Bung, and gradually a regular semi- necessary, the group will continue precedent for the marriage-of an

spec-

religious performance was evolved. With the play a new era opened. The idea was still that of a tacle to delight the gods," but now stories were introduced, all with ane object-to emphasize the great tess of the Chinees people and their gods. In every there

"barb was a wicked wore a hidous mask, and was even- tually outwitted by the hero's serpalous observance of the pre- cepts of the Chinese sagen. This form of play stimulated a wide- spread hatred of all barbarians,"

foreigners, which though originally directed against the Mongols and Tartars, has now, in the interior, by a turned against the modern *barbarians" from Europe and Amerien.

or

The old plays, written hundreds of years ago, are still the plays of to-day. Every one in the audience knows the plot and most of the wards of a play before he goes to 4. Acting in consequence consists in the making of formal gestures

as

the fork of the Arena).

* Eleét.

tho

sian group is being personally at- The reconstruction of the Rus tended to by Marahal Chang Chung Chang, but even if it is decided that a numerical aeduction is to i of the same high standard as Heir Apparent to a commoner. It

Imperial prince-especially before. The principal feature of a likely the, Matsudaira family the new policy will be regular pay will be elevated in rank to give meats of salary in silver.

Miss Setsuko a station approach- Mr. D. Merkoutoff remaining that of her Imperial fanca

adviser to Marshal Chang. Chung Chang and will supervise Dowager Empress Admirer Of Bride As for myself," concluded. It is understood here that the be- General Nechai, I am having trothal was arranged by the Dowa

rest in Tringtao, rending books, ger Empress Sadako, mother of- and learning how to fight

Chichibu, who has long been” a friend of the Matsudaira family and an admirer of Miss Setauko. According to one story the Dowager Empress arranged Prince Chi- chibu's visit to Washington last Fear, when he was a guest of the Matsudaira family in the Embassy, as preliminary to the betrothal The Prince and Miss Setsuka bave been close friends for a long time and the love affair is considered the natural culmination of mutual tastes and nameiation,

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