"Take a mild case, for instance, A very representative group of Americans, the American Players, have been staging a play called 'Captain Applejack.' This is a sort of comedy-drama, of British auc thorship, which had a run in New York. in the second act a very detestable little creature is. repr sented by sneaking coward dresn~ ed in the supposed garb of a Chinese, gesticulating inn manner that has become the popular American conception of the most subtle trench= ery. No doubt the role was in the original play. But here is an American group in Shanghai, re= presenting the better class of their people in the foreign community, not thoughtful enough to remember that they are producing @ play in China and that the rile of the villainous foil to the swashbuckling hero would offend the feeling of the Chinese people in the audience.
"Some day the foreigners herd will succeed in teaching the Chines how to be discourteous, rude, ard violent. 'Then the natural thing will happen, unless—yes, but it may. be a little too much to expect—unless the foreigners take a little more thought in the reli so many of their missionaries are tly' to propagate representatives preach, Mr, Moy returned to China ree cently to confer with some of the Nationalist leaders, and is planning: 4 trip buck to America in the near ture, Gotrexs at Hungjao on Sunday had some additional excitement when a gagele of about one hundred wild geese got up in the vicinity of Lunghua and flew over the course, 80 low that several sportsmen, unable to resist the temptation, tried to use their niblicks, but without result, for the geese carried: safely on their flight to the north,
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