. The pine-tree = Matsu : a drama, adapted from the Japanese, with an introductory causerie on the Japanese theatre. ng of therecitatives, were forbidden to theyoimg ladies who, by acting thus,had reduced themselves to thelevel of rogues and vagabonds. Another time, when the Toku-gawa legislators were greatlyconcerned about the immoralityof the theatre, they promulgateda law that no theatre was to bemore than two storeys had been built first at Osakaand Kyoto, and then at Yeddo,theatres three storeys high, withrooms in the top storey fordebauches of various kinds, andwith secret pas
. The pine-tree = Matsu : a drama, adapted from the Japanese, with an introductory causerie on the Japanese theatre. ng of therecitatives, were forbidden to theyoimg ladies who, by acting thus,had reduced themselves to thelevel of rogues and vagabonds. Another time, when the Toku-gawa legislators were greatlyconcerned about the immoralityof the theatre, they promulgateda law that no theatre was to bemore than two storeys had been built first at Osakaand Kyoto, and then at Yeddo,theatres three storeys high, withrooms in the top storey fordebauches of various kinds, andwith secret passages leading fromthere to the managers office. Itwas said that ladies, experiencingduring the performances a suddenfancy for one or the other actor, — 54 — OF THE DRAMA. used, at the end o£ the play, to goto the manager and to make termswith him for the cession of thecontemplated actor for an hoiu: orso, the manager and his employeesharing the profits thus scandalous state of things wasabolished and henceforth theatreshad but two storeys, and the yose,plain, comfortless music halls,
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