Story of Bali, Indonesia

When the ladies have sat down at the far end beside the gamelan there is a comic interlude, before the entry of the king, by the traditional court attendants, in Tjoepak called Panas-hati and Soekadaya, who both wear kains of large black and white check over striped red, white, and black trousers. There is the usual scene of court clowning, parodies of royal pomp and topical improvisations; the usual mockery of the chief attendant by the clown, who holds the ceremonial umbrella all wrong, either covering Panas-hati's face completely or forgetting to walk with him, so that he struts forward in imagined state while the symbol of his dignity remains behind.

The great gold and black umbrellas held thus at slanting angles made a grand patterned decor. Panas-hati's discovery that he had crouched too soon in anticipation of the raja's entry, and his forward dance with crouching duck-steps in his long robe was a marvel of acrobacy as well as a brilliant translation of courtly subservience and pomposity into terms of dance.
With the entry of the stately figure of the King of Daha we return to the high style. Leaning forward with grand gestures beside the umbrellas he converses with Panas-hati in flowery language, which it is the vizir's role to translate Balinese, shifting while he speaks from one noble pose to another

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