' Marco Polo '
RHODA POWER
Last week, you will remember, Professor Eileen Power introduced Marco Polo into her talk on the Empire on Horseback, and today Rhoda Power is to re-create him in another of her famous dramatic interludes.
This little play will be given in two scenes. The first is set in the Palace of Kublai Khan , who, as you will remember, was the great Mongol Emperor of China from 1260 to 1294. You are to hear and visualise, if not to see, Kublai Khan receiving the celebrated Venetian travellers, Marco Polo and Jiis father and uncle, on their arrival in China.
The second scene takes place in the year 1295, in a Venetian merchant's house, where a little boy is telling his grandfather about the return of the Polos to Venice after their long visit to China, and about how they were received.