Ban on Chinese Actress is Reported Raised Peiping, June 20.
Atter an enforced absence of more than three years Pal Vu Shangh oF White Jade Frost, the well-known Chinese "Peng Peng" actress, will shortly appear on the Peiping stage again, according to information from Chinese sources.
She returned from Tientsin at noon today and confided to Chinese reporters that the municipal authorities chad considered favourably her recent petition for the removal of the ban on her stage appearances In Peiping. and that the ban would be rescinded provided she signed a statement pledging herself not to appear in those plays deemed detrimental to good morals, Pal Vu Shangh further said that she had decided to comply with the conditions laid down by the municipality and that she expected to appear at the Kwang Teh Lou outside the Chien Men early next month.
'A favourite and idol of thousands of Chinese theatre-goers in the Tien—ehiao district, Pal was expelled from Peiping by Colonel Yuan Liang, then Mayor, about three years ago because he took exception to some of her plays. She went to Hankow and Shanghai, where she scored mediate hit with the Chinese public. Later she tried to open a season in Nanking but. there the authorities anned her plays and forbade her appearances.
Returning to Shanghai she repeated her successes. Early this year she quarreled with "her foster mother and came to North China. At first the local authorities refused to remove the ban imposed by Colonel Yuan Liang but have now reconsidered their decision—Reuter,
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