On announcing that I was going to see the most popular actress of China, Miss Lee Sheut-fong, of Canton, the protest was immediately raised by the cognoscenti; "Of course you mean a boy taking the heroine's place on the stage." Popular opinion has it so strongly fixed in mind that there are no women and girls on the Chinese stage that it was hard to convince the knowing ones that Miss Lee is actually a young girl, and that moreover she has her own*trouge of feminine players.
For some two months this company of players, all women, has been playing at, the Kuangwu-tai Cantonese Theatre in Jukong Road, off North Szechuen Road, and will continue till June 10, presenting an extensive repertoire. Performance are given daily from 1-5 and 7-12 p.m. After seeing Miss Lee resplendent in gorgeous costumes, brilliant in the conventional make-up, singing and posturing her way through various thrilling episodes which culminate ed in the elaborate ceremonial of a wedding, I was privileged to chat with her in the Chinese equivalent of the green room.
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Our conversation was carried on through an interpreter, for Miss Lee, although she has produced plays in English-speaking lands does got speak English. She is a charming little thing, and very gracious in her manner, Her face is perfectly modelled and shows remarkable cairn and serenity when in repose, flashing into animation as she speaks. Her eyebrows are not Re
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