Women of the poorer classes who had no education usually work in factories, such ay the cotton factories, cigarette factories,—match' factories, and hosiery manufacturcrx in Shanghai, There are more 100,000 women doing. th of work here, and the best of them wet $1 or 82 a day, while the unskilled ones earn 30 cents or more daily, Scerataries ey A few ars axe there was a bank opened ud managed by women it ix still staff cone women, and they seem to ug well. 'The Industrial and Commercial Bank has of lute put Sh] up a Women's Department. Salary heat the same as for teachers, Quite w few of the Chinese girls work as secretaries or stenograph-cers in lawyers' offices, and for firms, and these get quite good ranging from 40 taels to over Stage and Chinese Acting wes one of the vers few professions that a lady could take in olden times, and it was regarded as low as prostitution, But times have changed, and we now sce many girls becoming actresses, This fs a way of getting easy moner. Some of the talented ones get more than $1,000 a month, What I have been saying is with regard to the stage, but quite recently there has sprung' up the motion picture industry, which is a novelty and promises a more or less alluring future, consisting of a life of nse and comfort and an abundant flow money into one's purse, is sought after by all classes. The present, however. is not ce rosy. There are about 50 motion-picture companies in Shanghai, and estimating each to have 10 actresses, there would be more than 500, and if we take into account the understudies, the number world approach 1,000." The highest salary sq far is'$200, 1 ave heard that the star in one of the best pictures received $160 a month while she was making that picture. One can guess how muck she gets between periods when one picture is finished and another is not started, and this actress is considered to be one of the very few, stars who possess the ability of ack ing, What with expensive clothes and other extravagances, the ace tresses can hardly live on what they earn, Among the actresses may be included a class of singers, who sing stage melodies, or tell stories in singing style, sometimes aecompanied by a bit of acting. They number about 300, and may be found in any of the roof gardens.
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