ed in time. However, for myself I prefer having only women."
"Would you advise Chinese girls to adopt the stage as a profession, and is there any special training for it?" was the next question.
"That must depend on the girl herself' replied Miss Lee non-comitally, "She should have education and be gifted in -nusic if possible. There are various schools which prepare pupils for the. stage, a specially good one being the Yaumati School of Hongkong, where besides training in singing and dancing the scholars are taught the ordinary branches of Chinese education. That is how my troupe was trained. There are six or seven other companies of women players, but they have not been trained this way."
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