Show CHINA A PARADI3E FOR ACTORS Celebrities of the Stage Earn Big Money There China Is the actors paradise There are thousands of actors In the empire ana tho top notchers earn considerably consider-ably moro In proportion than actors even In this country of high salaries A native actor will earn If ho Is a flrstrato man as high as JlSOO A year and while this money Is Inslgnlfl cant compared to our princely pay lists It will procure comforts and lux tines lo a native In China that could not bo duplicated hero for fifty times tho amount There Is a national actors act-ors club with 30000 lIfo members and there Is a special god In tho temples 1 tem-ples to whom all good Chinese Thespians Thespi-ans pray It Is very itllllcult to acquire ac-quire the title of actor In China The pupil Is obliged to study three years as a super and one moro year Is required to give him tho finishing touch The pupil must learn by heart a repertoire of about fifty different plays and the rest of his life Is spent In acting these plays without tho slightest change and without over bo Inc permitted to learn now ones The Idota Is that an actor as such must not condescend to learn which Is fitting fit-ting only to nn apprentice but an actor act-or may without Injury to his dignity teach worthy pupils what ho blmscll learned as a pupil |