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Title:
man in a pavilion is served tea by a maid, a woman in a cape stands by a trellised arbor, staged at the Great Star Theatre
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Digital Archive of Chinese Theater in California
Description:
Three women and a man in a garden. Romantic operas such as this were popular in the largely bachelor society in Chinatown,
San Francisco, during the Exclusion era, when there were few Chinese women in America.
Creator/Contributor:
May's Photo (Firm : San Francisco, Calif.)
Date:
1925 (issued)
Contributing Institution:
Museum of Performance and Design, Performing Arts Library
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