At the end of his 64th birth day celebration , the "Chitra" drama in English version was staged. The young non-professional artists of the Chrescent moon Society took part in the roles. They had their dialogue in pure English pronunciation. Nanda lal Basu helped them in dressing and painting. He wrote I make the Chinese in Bengalee dress. I have to face some difficulty for their tiny eyes.Lastly they looked like Manipuri.. They acted well.Chitra played by Miss Miss Phillis W,Y. lin, in the role of Arjun Chang Hsin-hai, as Kamdev madan -bHsu Tse-Mon , Hritudevata Basanta - Lin Chang-min, Villagers- Miss Monica Y. Wang, Mrs c. Yang, Chiang Fang Cheng, Ting sih-lin.
Before the drama was staged Rabindrabath in reply to the welcome address paid thanks for his new nomenclature.
on and from the next day , 9th May, the series of lectures organized by the Peking Lecture Association on whose invitation Rabindranath had come to China would begine.
Rabindranath delivered his first lecture out of six to be delivered in the biggest and modern Community hall namely Chen Kwang Theatre Hall at 11 AM on 9th May, 1924.
Far Eastern Times wrote about this lecture,
" The pit of the Cheng Kwang Theatre and a couple of score of seats in the gallery were filled with the audience that attendedthe first of Rabindranath Tagore's public lectures yesterday morning. It was a pity hat the gathering was not much larger, for the utterance was a remarkably fine one., delivered with a rhetorical perfection that enhanced its acceptability, and made arresting by its quiet and indirect but eviscerating criticism of the accepted standards. "
The lecture was published in Talks in China., titled ",To the public at the Theatre in Peking."
on and from the next day , 9th May, the series of lectures organized by the Peking Lecture Association on whose invitation Rabindranath had come to China would begine.
Rabindranath delivered his first lecture out of six to be delivered in the biggest and modern Community hall namely Chen Kwang Theatre Hall at 11 AM on 9th May, 1924.
Far Eastern Times wrote about this lecture,
" The pit of the Cheng Kwang Theatre and a couple of score of seats in the gallery were filled with the audience that attendedthe first of Rabindranath Tagore's public lectures yesterday morning. It was a pity hat the gathering was not much larger, for the utterance was a remarkably fine one., delivered with a rhetorical perfection that enhanced its acceptability, and made arresting by its quiet and indirect but eviscerating criticism of the accepted standards. "
The lecture was published in Talks in China., titled ",To the public at the Theatre in Peking."
