After supper we visited a cinema Japanese play. The ci its doors at six o'clock and showed various plays until 11.90. We went about nine thinking, that would be! entertainment enough for us after our long day at Michino. The foreign play was an American comedy of the usual rollicking sort and was much enjoyed by the! audience. The Japanese show was! fof much more interest to us. It was excellently acted and we could almost follow the story. gathered a general idea of what it was about and this was corrected and elaborated by our host after we of home. We paid 80 sen for our tickets and were accommodated with chairs, set against the wall where our tall posture would not interfere with the view of the rest Jot the audience, which comfortably squatted on mats.
The theatre was well built and spacious. It was filled to the doors with an audience, quite" la lare¢ part of which was-en famille. Wa]
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