Anderson & Ca., Ltd., who returned to Shanghai on Surday after a trip across Russia from London, gives an extraordinarily interesting account of conditions in Moscow.
To the average tourist, Moscow, as the hub of the country, does not show a gay side, Mr. Schlee said when questioned about general Gitions there. Tt may be added that Mr, Schlee's own observations have been made accurate through a knowledge of the Russian tongue, ai of conditions in the capital in other} years. Speaking from this point of view, in an interview yesterday, said that Moscow might be called 'a snd city, in spite of the 40 theatres: running to full houses, and—th several opera companies with thely full nightly well-rounded out patronage, as well as a negro operetta playing before Inrge audiences. At the cabarets and night cafes, many of which have roulette wheels and similar devices going at full swing under government sanction, there is none of the care-free hilarity Which i commonly associated with places to give them a raison) ette." "Vodka is much in evidence, 3 ave there who have been over-n the country. He as pointed out by Mr. Schlee, that railway porter receives 40 roubles of about' £4 a month, four of which he must pay for his od and lodging ut prices consider ly higher. than formerly. Ths tourist may even have oceiaion to fenter into conversation, as did. Me. Schlee, with a Communist boy scout lor rather "Pioneer" as this youthfal enthusiast would. term himself Russia, Part. of the code of the "Pioneer includes no drinking nor smoking, and "since there are stil people in the world who believe Grd, no scofng at people of this Kind" as the "Pioneer" himself explained in answer to the rales of game.
The tourist will also hear about the proposed statue to Karl Mars which was to have pat in its ap pearance in front of the. Moscow Opera House, and which was ireladed in the budget of the year, but had to be cut off the list." The present shrine, which draws count-Tess pilgrims of the new regime, is that of Lenin, in Moscow, the Com: munist. ultra-dseipie, who lies eneased in his crystal cetin for the world to gaze st. bibing of it. Jazz, having cone under the ban of the Government ax immoral, is not danced in thes" Places, so that the concertina of the old days has had no serious set-back from the saxophone.
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