Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
_The palace of the_ KING OF BURMAH. _The scene is laid in the Hall of a Hundred Doors_. _In the distance can be seen the moat_, _the waiting elephants_, _and the peacocks promenading proudly in the blinding sunshine of late afternoon_. _The scene discovers_ KING MENG BENG _sea...
_The jungle once more_. _Time_: _noonday_. _In place of the hut is a building_, _half Burmese_, _half Italian villa_, _of white Chunam_, _with curled roofs rising on roofs_, _gi...
7. Chapter 7_Colonnades of roses stretch away on every side_. _Fountains play_, _throwing a shower on water-lilies of monstrous size_. _Peacocks walk with stately tread across the green tur...
1. Chapter 1_The palace of the_ KING OF BURMAH. _The scene is laid in the Hall of a Hundred Doors_. _In the distance can be seen the moat_, _the waiting elephants_, _and the peacocks promen...
2. Chapter 2_When the curtain rises_, _the circular platform is deserted_. _Statues of Buddha seated and recumbent fill the numberless niches in the wall_, _and before each burn long candle...
6. Chapter 6_The home of the Chinese Wizard_, HIP LOONG, _by the river_--_a place fitted with Chinese things_: _Dragons of gold with eyes of jade gleaming from out dim corners_, _Buddhas of...
5. Chapter 5MAH PHRU, _wondering_, _descends to greet them_. _Enter_ U. RAI GYAN THOO. _He is dressed all in white_, _which is Burmese mourning_. MAH PHRU _sinks back_--_she fears the worst...
9. Chapter 9_The bed-chamber of the King_--_vast and shadowy_. _On heaped-up cushions and covers of yellow and blue_, _under a pearl-sewn creamy velvet baldaquin_, _embroidered with peacock...
8. Chapter 8_He tells her that he has restored her to her former state only because she has implored him to do so_; _that her life is measured by hours as a consequence of such insensate fo...
3. Chapter 3_A humble dhunni-thatched hut_, _set amidst the whispering grandeur of the jungle_, _with its mighty trees_, _its trackless paths_, _its indescribable silence_. _The curtain dis...