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1022 ... BURMESE AMUSEMENT CALLED " PWAY "
(Group in Masks)
The national amusement of the people of Burmah is "Pwe" (pronounced "Pway"). The performance portrays various incidents in Burmese history. It takes place in the open air, frequently lasts all night, and the ma jority of the audience are accustomed to stay from eight o'clock in the evening until sunrise the next morning. The The performance consists of acting, singing, dancing, and clowning Length 100 feet.
1023 ... BURMESE HISTORY PORTRAYED BY CHARAC
TER ACTING (Group)
Continuation of the preceding subject, showing a different performance by an unmasked group. Length 100 feet.
1024 ... BURMESE CHARACTER ACTING. The Monkey
and the Imp
Another section of the preceding film {very amushxj)
Length 100 feet.
1025 ... PROCESSION OF 140 LEPERS AT MANDALAY
This pathetic picture of lepers in Mandalay, Burma, illustrates the beneficent work that is being done among these terribly afflicted people. In the Asylum in which these lepers are gathered there are doomed creatures in various stages of tubercular and anaesthetic leprosy, ranging in age from tiny children to old men and women, some of whom are quite unable to rise. Length 150 feet.
1026 ... THE OUTCASTS OP INDIA— PROCESSION OF
MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN RECLAIMED FROM DEGRADATION AND DEYIL WORSHIP
This remarkable subject depicts the marvellous way in which India has been opened to Christian influence by the ministry of healing. The key that opened this door was held by lady doctors. No degradation could be greater than that into which tliese people had fallen, and the transforming influence of the Christian religion, evidenced in their dress, countenance, speech and habits of life, are wonderful indeed. In this group are several who were formerly Devil Priests and Devil 1'riestesses, and the Heathen Temples they have left wait in vain for their return. Length 200 feet.
1027 PROCESSION OF 1.800 WIDOWS OF THE RAM ABAI
COLONY, INDIA
The remarkable Brahmin Woman who heads this Pro cession consisting of eighteen hundred High -caste Widows and deserted Wives, is Pundita Ramabai. The clearness of her views on the subject of child-marriage, and the eloquence of her expression were such that the Pundits of Calcutta conferred on her the title of" Sarasvati '' (Goddess of Wisdom). There are twenty-three millions of widows in India, and of these nearly seven tyreight thousand are under nine years of age. No words can express the mi-ery, torture and suffering of the child-widow. This cruel custom constitutes the open sore of India, for "once a widow always a widow," and the life of Ramabai the Reformer, is devoted towards rescuing child-widows and deserted wives from their unhappy surroundings and bringing them under the kindliest Christian influence. Length 300 feet.