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Albert Carroll satirically skewered Chinese Actor Mei Lan-fang with elaborate gesture and thin, cracked voice. Another famed actor taken up was Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, who lately returned to Wanamaker's department store from the Police Commissionership of New York. Sings he (Philip Loeb...
...Chinese Actor Mei Lan-fang made his U. S. debut...
...flowers on display, and not a bug or a worm or a weed. Those who went early enough saw a Miss Doris Humphreys perform an interpretive dance (to violin accompaniment) on $1,000 worth of turf, heard a Miss Frances Johnson recite an Ode to Spring, applauded while Mr. Mei Lan-fang. China's greatest actor (TIME, Feb. 24). accepted a tulip bulb named in his honor...
...MEI 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...