| Show IN A YOKOHAMA IA THEATER I Before leaving Ing Yokohama I went ent to th the theater which certainly was unlike an anything anything any any- thing I had ever seen before We Ye faton sat fat on the floor of or our called so-called box and had tea like tho the crowd And such a crowd I It was an endless source of or in- in J erest and amusement to watch th them m. m whole families mothers law e and daughters ln In children of oC all a ages age e and parents different generations fathers sons and antl grandsons All had their dinners with them Little trays tras were produced produced- tiny boxes nil full of rice bowls containing weird foodstuffs pink white and green pea weed on rice cakes raw fish and nameless nameless name name- less yellow ellow condiments tea in microscopic cups of oC course with no milk or sugar The Japanese cannot understand Europeans Euro- Euro putting milk In their tea as ac according according according ac- ac cording to them thern It has n n. strong smell The children were sell and anI nd undressed during the entr'actes s. s and people smoked slept ate talked and fanned d themselves It was certainly a great contrast to see a n little such ns os Pierre Pierro Loti describes de de- scribes daintily dressed In tho the gayest act of kimonos and smartest of ot obis sitting silting b between bc- bc tween a coolie wearing nothing but bul a loose cotton collon Jacket and anti nn an old hag nursing a ahab hab baby Althou Although h It Jt was tru true that most moat of oC the tho men had little on on and the thermometer ter tor Or was degrees the atmosphere was not Impossible as I am sure suro would have e been tho the case In a European theater under under un un- un der del similar circumstances The plays plas have usually fourteen or fifteen acts and last all day 3 In and sometimes two This particular one not having ln an actress s such 8 a as to Interpret It IL was quite blo to me but I admired the grace of the actresses their cas cay movements movements move move- ments when dancing and the wa way the they managed their tJ tight ht clothes Im Imagine lne my surprise when I found out aCl afterward that lint the they were ero au all men Up to a few fw years pars ago men and wom n did not act together In Japan the thc theatrical companies being composed of or either elhel one s sex eX x or the other and there are now nfl mixed companies Lad Lady Randolph Churchill In the Century |
