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The foregoing passages, which have outlined, in general, the striking differen: between Peking and): Shanghai audiences, might be elabo-_ rated into book length.
It is of interest to point out that Shanghai not only presents serial plays of the extravaganza type which have had two yeuty ren, but also, a8 coco dri, Get eire Wastes presented mixed re grammes, which began with te four old classic plays and ended with about two hours of somimodern extravaganza. From it may be gathered that there is a combination of plays of types in order to please the different
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