A woman is holding a toy snake, she is on stage with a guy speaking through a microphone, and a man in clown makeup holding a guitar.
The people are on the stage.
To the delighted curiosity of Japanese visitors, the houses are filled with the kind of Victorian paraphernalia that is becoming increasingly popular in modern damask-covered furniture, an upright piano, a massive mahogany sideboard, and a grand old gramophone with a big horn, manufactured by the Nippon-Ophone Company.