Chen Yuan-cheng, of the Chiu School, who worked with him playing the part of Ts'ao Ts'ao, remembers that when they were rehearsing, Li Bao-chun specially asked him to go to the hotel where Li was staying so the two of them could rehearse each scene one after the other.
與他搭檔演曹操的裘派花臉陳元正記得他們排練時，李寶春特別請他到下榻的旅館，兩人一場一場地對戲。