Trip to Investigate Western.
Theatre Faow OUR OWN Conuuspoxoeir Peking, Apr. 20.
Mr, Cheng Jen-chin, one of the leading " stars of the" theatrical Hiirmament of Peking, hag recently returned here from a trip abroad that he undertook at public expense, with Mfr. Li shir-tseng, the well= Known. "Kuomintang " leader "and jeducationalist, At the time of their departure there was a considerable lottery raised by the students here at the government lavishing money on this kind of thing, when' the educational institutions "were all being starved. Since his return Mr, Chang has given an interview to the Press in which he gave an account of his tour and an interesting summary of the conclusions at which he had arrived from his studies of Western drama, which may perhaps console some of the orities for the money spent, the first place he is of the opinion that except fora few minor alterations—such as. removing. the wwehestra from the stage—no great changes in the Chinese theatre are necessary or desirable, Chinese drama lad little to learn from the West, Indeed Mfr, Cheng was. able assure his countrymen that, from what he had seen during his trip, Chinese actors were superior those of the West, because they ex-[celled not only inthe dramatic ar, bat also' as dancers and singers, at the same. tim was shipped to Chit from Germany om Germ
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