It is by no means an ensy task, Mrs, Hsu confoases with quaint charm. Although the "young intel-Tectuals" themselves feel no inhibitions about expressing their newly ystallized ideals on the stage, the profession is still looked at askance by the older generation. The mode for self-expression,—_glamorously new, excites the young generation. Not's0, however, the older one, whom glamour is less important than precedent, The way to start these now departures from crippling traditions is to form groups of interested young people of good family who. can, 80 to speak, "get away with it." A society known gs the "Crescent" was flourishing "at one time in Poking, under the wgis of Mr. mon Hey, for encouraging amateur dramatics in North China. Locally, the Pegasus Society exists for painters, and it is hoped that provision can be made in the very near future for those who are interested in amateur dramatics, in other words a "Little Theatre," with a repertoire. of translated foreign dramas and possibly including. others written by clever young Chinese for a modern and westernized audience—L.B.W.
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