Show CHINA A PARADISE FOR celebrities of the stage earn BIS 89 money there china la is the actors paradise thera are thousands ot of actors in the and the top n at e bers earn co nl lder ably more in proportion than actors actor een in this country of high salaries A native actor will earn it if he Is a first rate man as high as 1800 a year and while this money la Is insignia insign ift cant compared to our princely pay lists it will procure comforts and lux uries to a native in china that could not be duplicated here for fifty times the amount there Is a national act ors club with life membris a and n d t there h e r e almas is a special p e e 1 god in tl e tern tent ad p plea le s t to 0 N whom mi h 0 all 11 g good 0 0 chinese chiaese ans pray it Is very difficult to acquire the title of actor I 1 in china the pupil to la obliged to study three years as a super and one more year Is required to 0 o give him the 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 the iha at slightest change and without ever be 1 I 1 permitted to learn new ones the tha ideta Is that an I 1 actor as such must not condescend to learn which Is fit ting only to an apprentice but bat an actor may without injury to his dignity teach worthy pupils what he himmell learned as a pupil |