The drama for the evening i special vehicle for Mei called "Red: string Stealing the Precious Box"!
(Healy-hsien Two Ho), thrilling) tale of a heroine of the Tang period, and favourite of Mei Lan-fang's.
Especially striking, is Hun costume. Also of interest is the fact that this drama was enacted in Peking by Mei Lan-fang before the entire international diplomatic body, the Manchu Dynasty, 16H-present. The Kimchi, " real Chines isa soft style of music, in which the nutes of the flute don The noisy brass, now popular with the masses and often mistaken by Euro-
Heuns as a Chinese creation, is the: pichwong, & product of the north, Wwhere the Mongolian strain mingles [freely with the Chinese It was the Into" Empress Dowager, who, exercising, her usual bad taste, jlrousght the pi-kwang to popularity Ste. Mei has. been' making. hereto iitorts to revive the. Furceh'y an example being "The Tale of Selling Horses," which was performed _at the Tahsin Watai on Tuesday! evening, November 16.
Female. Impersonators Within the pi-huang division, so] much in vogue at-present that we] say ours is a pi-hwang world; there:
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