The diary of Edmund Heller, October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918 : covering his return trip from the First Asiatic Expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History
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At the hotel in trying to change Pobury currency I got in conversation with the Korean guide & he took me to a Korean theater. We reached this place at 9 P.M. found it consisted of a ground floor & a gallery above. The men were in the audience were separated from the women as in China, the woman occupying the left side of the ground floor & the gallery & the men the right side center. The theater was an opera of sorts. On our entry a prima donna Korea was singing alone with the central [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]