Saigon, Vietnam 1915 by Léon Busy
Seen here in full costume, these actors are members of the company at the Saigon Theatre…In the south performers and dramatists developed a musical comedy genre called cai luong (renewed opera), which soon became more popular than the more classical hat tuong form of Vietnamese opera.
From The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet
by David Okuefna