Mei Lan-fangs appearance is al-ays a sensation and certainly it was no less so when he appeared before a packed house at the Metropol Theatre on Friday evening in the Ming music drama "Chi Shuan; Hui (an extraordinary twin meeting), known as "San also (the three hand-pulls), an exquisite comedy. Here Dr. Mei appears in a Ching-i role, that of a virtuous wife of faultless character as contrasted with his other roles of Hua tan—vivacious and temperamental roles depicting courtesans or vicious maid-servants as the case Berlin, Mar. 12.
Before a general meeting of Shareholders of the Reichsbank yesterday, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht the President newly confirmed in office, spoke on changes in German financial policy.
"It is no secret" he declared, "that beside the long-term indebtedness of the Reich the short-term indebtedness has also increased considerably in volume in the last few years. So far, it has not been possible completely to repay or consolidate the short-term indebtedness but it must not be forgotten that as against the increase of the Reich's indebtedness there is a decrease of private indebt-eelness. This means that it is not so much a matter of increase of the total indebtedness of the Reich as of a transposition of the indebtedness from the private to the public charge. If only financial, and not also political reasons, had to be taken into consideration, there would scarcely be any objection to a complete public revelation of the true state of the German financial situation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.