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Show jJAPANESE ACTORS PRESENTING PLAYS c5 5 c& PROCEEDS GO TO EDUCATIONAL FUND CHARACTERISTIC scenes and costumes from Japanese plays. At the top is a scene from one of the plays being presented al the Garrick theater, showing one nobleman plotting revenge upon the olh-er. At the lower left is what is known as a "Japanese Amazon." All female parts in oriental plays are taken by men. At the lower right is a typical Japanese villain. In , ( . . ' I ' ... ' j) 1)1 ..a . li)r f; Lp - U Big Audience Gathers at Garrick Theater to See First Production. TWO famous Japanese plays, T're" sented by a company of twenty-five twenty-five Japanese actors from Og-don, Og-don, are interesting the Jocal Japanese colony in t proven I. The i'i rst play was jireeiited at. the tiavriek theater the-ater Inst nipjii. ami the other will be given thi eveuinp. The plays hcciu at. o o'clock in the evening and, like all ond oriental plays, continue for many Rour-.'. ome of' the great pays last for days, and t h'.if being presented here are comparatively short' ones. The play presented last, night was based on one of the favorite dramatic, themes of the Japanese, revenge. It is called "Hikone. Revenge. ,; Tho story tells of Lord Hikouc, -who had tVo great fencing experts named TMieshima and Takamatu. Takeshima was defeated defeat-ed iu a duel by Tnkaniatsu in the itcs-cnec itcs-cnec of their lord, mid as a result laka-niatsu laka-niatsu was muriicred. The son of Takauiiitsu then tried to avenge the death of his famous father. .During his plotting, howeer, he himself him-self was murdered by his foes. His wife and her servants then took it upon themselves to complete his p:ins, and, finaily, after crept dit'fii-nlty, succeeded in avenging I he death of hoth by slaying slay-ing the murderer of Taknmatsu. "The Yagachi Tier" is the. title of the play which will be presented tonight, to-night, beginning at o'clock". l:s story, as t ran shi ted bv a i",-al ,l;i a nesc, "is as follows: The gramUon oi' Vashi-sada, Vashi-sada, tho famous patriot nf the middle i ages, tried to overpower the Ashikflga Shogunatc, who destroyed the yiitra family. Du'h's way tn complete hjs srhcnie he had to tos a rier at Yagachi pier. A spv from the hogunnte. hearing of tho plot, succeeded in uiaking a hole in tiie bottom of t!:e slr.p wliich held njt tho pier on wdihdi tin- plotter was passing- and he was drowned. The jdays are being given Tor the benefit, fund of the .):'paiiee association. associa-tion. This fund is used to educate: j Japanese school bo s in- I'rah schools.' I There was n largo a tendance of Salt I Take and out-of-town Japanese at the' plar last night. I |