IN BURMA. MUSIC HALL PERFORMANCE. The performance has begun. A low throb like the beat of a -giant’s pulse vibrates through the air, soft yet persistent, and all the world moves slowly in the direction of the sound —a Burmese world, fluttering lightly down the street in vivid colours. There is no lilt of music, no provocative invitation, but the appeal of the low-toned drums inevitably draws us into the laughing stream of the theatre-goers, and. without a backward glance, we leave the shadow r ed stillness of a palm grove whose slopes lean to the Irrawaddy for the hot glare of a
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 October 1924, Page 14
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