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Year

1930

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Mei Lanfang toured the United States. Marianne Moore saw a program of four short plays by him and his company. She was overwhelmed by Mei Lanfang's performance in female roles.
Letter from Marianne Moore to Monroe Wheeler ; Brooklyn, March 18, 1930.
I have seen Across the World with Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson, and tomorrow I expect to go to a program of four plays and dances by the Chinese actor, Mei Lan-Fang and his company.

Subjects

Literature : Occident : United States of America

Documents (2)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1997 Moore, Marianne. The selected letters of Marianne Moore. Bonnie Costello general editor. (New York, N.Y. : A.A. Knopf, 1997). S. 281. Publication / Moo8
  • Cited by: Zentralbibliothek Zürich (ZB, Organisation)
  • Person: Costello, Bonnie
  • Person: Moore, Marianne
2 2003 Qian, Zhaoming. The modernist response to Chinese art : Pound, Moore, Stevens. (Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2003).
http://books.google.ch/books/about/The_Modernist_Response_to_Chinese_
Art.html?id=S0AHhe2a0NoC&redir_esc=y
. S. 118.
Publication / SteW10