Word: tinkerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gentility and cultivation have made him a social favorite and an incessant host to visiting notables. His name appears on Chinese merchandise as suggestive of quality. He paints, gardens, studies biology, boxes in the Chinese fashion, likes to tinker with machinery. He has written some 15% of the 400 plays in his repertoire, and his collection of books on Chinese drama, art and music is noteworthy. Among those who have admired his acting are Fritz Kreisler, Somerset Maugham, the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden, Bertrand Russell. Tumultuously has he been received in Japan...