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...LAN-FANG-Traditional Chinese drama by its greatest exponent...
Selections from Japanese drama currently played in Manhattan by native mimes will inevitably be compared with the Chinese drama simultaneously presented in Manhattan by the greatest of Chinese actors, Mei Lan-Fang (TIME, Feb 17)-, Any comparison must take into account the fact that Mei Lan-Fang acts the century-old, traditional drama of China, as quaint and stylized as a sketch on a box of tea, whereas the Japanese company gives examples of the Ken-Geki or sword-drama, a 10-year-old popular departure from the formal, aristocratic Kabuki and No dramas of ancient Japan...
...LAN-FANG-China's greatest mime...
Again the forward line is Coach Pratt's chief problem. C.C. Pell '33 will probably take Saltonstall's place at right wing in the starting lineup, the other members of which will be W.C. Everett '33 at left wing and lan Baldwin '33 at center. With the return of S.H. Wolcott '33, who has been out with an infected knee the alternate forward line will consist of M. B. Stone Jr. '33 at left wing, J.W. Putnam '33, center, and Wolcott, right wing. The starting defense will remain unchanged...
...Lan-Fang's genius, say his Chinese critics, resides in the perfection with which he executes the bewildering Chinese orthodoxy of posture and diction. Playing his feminine roles he seemed like a painting of Hui Tsung miraculously come to elastic, undulating life. His dances with swords and wands possessed an extraordinarily feline continuity of movement. His falsetto was harsh but expressive. Watching his gait, his play with hands and voluminous sleeves, his tender coquetry, you could understand why Chinese poets have written panegyrics about his eye, smile, shoulder, even his waist...