A thousand-year-old Chinese comedy, "The Lady of the Precious Stream," the English version of which was written by Prof. S. I. slung and universally praised, will bbe produced next week at the Little Theatre.
Miss Nancy Price will direct the comedy while Miss Maisie Carroll will enact the role of the heroine.
Mr. Roger Livesey will take part of the hero.
The production, according to! Chinese convention, will be staged without scenery, bui a brief explanation during each act will render the symbolistic gestures of the actors and actresses intelligible to the audience.
Mr. Hsiung has succeeded in finding all of the requisite Chinese costumes. These are genuine and not fancy dress. Mr. Tisiung, how-fever, has not been able to find a correct Chinese orchestra, Mr. Quo Taicehi, Chinese Minister at London, will attend the Srst_performance, as will several well-known former China residents.
Mr. Hsiung formerly was a professor at the Peking University and has been studying English literature at the London University from last year. He Is deeply read in Chinese Mterature and is recognized asa rising dramatist. He has translated alt of Sir James Barrie's plays and some of Mr. Bernard Shaw's and the late Mr. Thomas Hardy's novels into Chinese.
'Mr, Hsiung has just completed a translation into English of "A: Romance in the Western Chamber Monastery," a I9th-century Chinese play which' will be published this spring.
Mr. Hslung's own work entitled "Mencius Was A' Bad Boy" was pub-shed in London last month and w well received.
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