Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-04-11 | Page 1 | Chinese Opera Presented for Tong Members

Chinese Opera Presented for Tong Members - r Delegates to Celestial Gathering in Philadelphia Entertained With Lengthy Production Given in Sections PHILADELPHIA, April 11. The presentation of an opera for delegates dele-gates attending the convention of the On Leony tong here will be resumed next Sunday, the opera having been only tialf finished after an eleventh-hour eleventh-hour session last Sunday, It developed today. The cast, entirely of men, are recruited re-cruited from the Chinatowns all over America, many of them played feminine femi-nine roles. The title of the work as translated j by Henry C. Leong of Philadelphia means "to gather." He said that the piece was all about revolutions. The orchestra consisted of three drummers and three fiddlers, who played on peculiarly shaped Instruments Instru-ments and after every scene pounded gonga. The audience hung breathlessly on every note and waa loath to take even Intermission for dinner.