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sons ng dyoasty. And vice is made vicious in our hinase the plays, and virtue virmous. We do not paint plying" Pain in beautiful colours, we make it black, no seminent in that those who see may shun it. Except in ths profanity of the language. Should you say Shakespeare, you have not that lesson lavari- to a Chinese in his own tongue, Come here, ably in your drama. my son, he, if not an actor, would be in duty bound to answer you with a hatchet. Several historic tong ware have been brought about" through this simple ward.

But deep fathoms below the "futher and the "son" lies the "it,” the man who plays the woman The English tongue furnishes no word that will describe the degree of personal con „tempt in which he is held by his countrymen.

But he gets the biggest salary of them all," says the manager,

niger, le gels 1,300 dollars season. And He is a great artist, as great us

will find to all China”,

you

A CORDIAL WELCOME." We are still talking contempt, when wo reach the leading lady's dressing-room. It looks a bit bigger than other, and from it opens a sinaller room just large enough for a single bunk, Jeung Tsai har fiuished with rouge and rice powder, and is twisting bis ceffure into shape. Until he speaks I need wit esses to assure, me that he is a man. His land are the size of a girl's of ten, and the flugers taper as though they had been moulded in minia ture cornucopias. His face is smaller and more- delicate of feature than a man's. His nose is in clined to be thinnish and Romanish rather than fat and squat, and his mile, is small and strangely gentle for a Mongolian; and his "narrow eyes are slit at an angle that would run them into his temples if they were long enough, He wears the substantial underdress of a Chi nese woman, plain, dirty, and without a frill

While Dr. Gardner talks to him in the lingo of my laundry tag, Jeung Tsai is cutting my bins with the nearest eye. Evidently I am being explained. He answers the interpreter in solemnly measured gutturals, and Gardner gives the message to me without spilling much of its Oriental rhetoric

*** I am indeed delighted to entertain a visit from one who is a student and a recorder of triumphs in the profession which I follow, and beg to tell the scholarly guest that I have but one word to say of gentlemen of his class, and that that word is a good one, for all criti ̈ ́s have been most gracious and truthful in comment ing on the success that has been mine in ny art."

It sounds very much like ilic flowery colloquy in "The First Born and "The cat and the Cherub,” and 1 try to keep-up my dignified end by asking this most worthy interpreter for the Government of the United States to express my gratitude to the accomplished actor of parts for

his kind words and request the to tell me

what he thinks of the American theatre as com- pared to the Chinese,

VIEWS ON THE WESTERN STAGE.

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think of certain problem plays, and not a

sorrowful acquiescence.

“Listen, then, good friend of art," says Jeung

IntimationS

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"A primo minister throws into the air a tassel of red silk, saying that whoever catches the tassel. shall marry his youngest and most beautiful daughter. And the tassel is caught by a beggar, and the father is greatly distressed, for on one side ties honour and the keeping of his wont, and on the other lies domestic happiness. He meditates. And while he measures the unex pected situation his daughter does a thing al- most unprecedented in the history of the Chi- nese. She runs away from home and weds with the beggar: not from a bad motive, bu only to shield her father against self-dishononr Then the beggar accomplishes a great feat that saves the empire, by catching a magic borse" that has eluded all pursuers; and he, therefores is greatly admired by the Empress, who has lost in death her consort, the Emperor. She says, "I will be your wife. He says But even now I have a wife at home waiting. But that is of no consequence where an Empress is concerned, she answers.

And straightway

they marry, and directly he finds his other wife and lifts her to great heights, for he has become the Emperor."

Jeung Tsal has finished his make-up, all save the outer dress, and stands watching how I take it. I do my best to look ecstatic, and evidently succeed, for he smiles benevolently.

THE GOLDEN PAGEAN

Tell him we haven't anything a bit like.it on any stage,” I say to Gardnerj "but ask him what he thinks of a social system that permits an American actor to be the social equal of the President of the United States, and tell him that an Englishman named Henry Irving was only a few years ago made into a Sir Knight by his Queen."

There is a slight bulge to the Oriental eyes

the interpreter breaks the news.

"Such players are fortunate, indeed," he sends back, and the account puts me in mind of what the Chinese actors call the golden page of Chinese history; for in that ancient page it is related that the great. Emperor him- self once received a company of players of great and particular excellence."

"Tell him, Doctor," I say, "that not the vice of curiosity, but the search for truth, impets me. to ask whether he play-acts because of the

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"Say to the searcher for truth that money is 1 can see the answer coming long before it

not to be despised, even by the poetic, but say reaches me. This historion, whose grandeires also that the income of the artist is regulated were historions before the cornerstone was plant ed for the Coliseum at Rome, whose latest role by the favour with which the people receive bis efforts Tell him that I am delighted with no doubt antedates the discovery of my country my art, and that if, in the interest of truth, I by Columbus, is not inclined to consider such a may be pardoned for saying so, the delight is comparison seriously. He talks through a deprecatory smile as the inch-long finger nails-stimulated and encouraged by the public's hard as bone, cut the hair into place.

"Tell the learned visitor," he says, "that he comes to but a poor source for the information he seeks I have witnessed the acting of the American and French stage only in an imper. fect way, usually leaving before the perform ances were over. From what I have enjoyed of the American stage in San Francisco I should say that the acting is comprehensive, if not beautiful. Of the management at the Chutes I have received many favours in the way of gratuitous admissions, and therefore would think calmly before weighing the art of the "actors who appear there. I can say, though, that some of them have talent and natural

grace, especially the acrobats. But of their drama, which is brief and disconnected,

cannot say much in praise, since it is only the unauthorised reflection of the passing day, and is not the living pourtrayal of ancient and authorised history, as is the case in the drama of the empire.

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appreciation of every rôle I undertake.”

From far below conies the squeak of resined hair on gut, the crash of brass on brass, and the tinkle tootle of the small-fry instruments of plectrum, percussion, and wind. The orchestra has started, and the play is on The leading lady is being hurriedly dumped into the gor cous outer robes, and beats us down the slippery stairs to the stage, Jeung Tsai pauses over a tallow candle burning against a piece of old iron at the side of the stage.

"Has the candle anything to do with the Play?" I ask the Doctor as we pass out,

No." he answers, it is n sort of shrine to one of those Chinese actors of the golden page, who played so well that his Emperor received him as a man and brother,”

That page was wriuen perhaps before n' Christ was born; and here, after 2,roo years-- here in the little rat-hole China of the "foreign devil is Jeung Tsai praying for a repetition of the miracle. Aren't they a patient race?

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