Burma . The King, Queen, Ministers and the Court Fool. The King decrees the banishment of the Prince : thejester indulges in caustic asides. Ir^^^ffimL^ Sk^^ l^rV^HS 5E^ If ^It** ^Wfflfflj ^^^pf^ IDk|^^|- Dii^4|!ftMi£MVH I^K* m sl^i^ «> iUHMHUHhi rlFvffllHlnP^ *^fW* teff*~v^y *(w!^^^ ^^^H sn^^^Jn ^Vt^^h^H^ 1 ^^SJ l^^gBI^^^By-r^^^Pf mH l^^^feMMgii *i!y. 7X« Prince and his attenda7it travel through the forest, -where the) meet with all manner of advetituresand are beset by ogres (btlu). xrj *\ i k ? ll hfi sk^fe:r« % • * 1 1 * ^. >,?! ra 4 liiS Hn M^aii&f .,>• ? ? \ ? _V ? -i- - 1 --? —
Burma . The King, Queen, Ministers and the Court Fool. The King decrees the banishment of the Prince : thejester indulges in caustic asides. Ir^^^ffimL^ Sk^^ l^rV^HS 5E^ If ^It** ^Wfflfflj ^^^pf^ IDk|^^|- Dii^4|!ftMi£MVH I^K* m sl^i^ «> iUHMHUHhi rlFvffllHlnP^ *^fW* teff*~v^y *(w!^^^ ^^^H sn^^^Jn ^Vt^^h^H^ 1 ^^SJ l^^gBI^^^By-r^^^Pf mH l^^^feMMgii *i!y. 7X« Prince and his attenda7it travel through the forest, -where the) meet with all manner of advetituresand are beset by ogres (btlu). xrj *\ i k ? ll hfi sk^fe:r« % • * 1 1 * ^. >,?! ra 4 liiS Hn M^aii&f .,>• ? ? \ ? _V ? -i- - 1 --? — The ogres bring dragons (nagS.) to attack the Prince, who is saved by the interposition of the genius (nat)of the forest. 392. MARIONETTE VARIETIES. [To/ace p. jj^. DRAMA AND MUSIC 175. 393. MARIONETTE PLAY. foreigner, preferablyfrom Europe, is broughton the scene. Peals oflaughter proclaim theseinterludes from troupe of four toeight actors and ac-tresses are paid thirtyto sixty rupees a night,according to their cele-brity and the distancethey come. The costof the whole entertainment, which everybody is free to attend, is defrayed bythe household tha,t gives the pwh Occasions for pwi are shmldung fetes andother domestic events, such as the completion of a new house, or the dedica-tion of a kyaung. At general festivals subscription pwk are organised and arefree to every one. The actors of the zappwk are professional, but in the han-pwi or yein-pwi, the performers are amateurs ; this is already implied by thelarge number of performers. One or two dozen young girls of ten to fifteenyears go through the postures of the Burman dance in time to music, all dresseduniformly as princesses or in some other fancy costume. This entertainmentis given by day ; it is the m
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