The Archive · 1927

A European Cabaret

Prodeeding along North Szechuen Road, one turns to the left into] Range Road, and then the first to the right, to find himself at the modest entrance to a garden starred with tables grouped about the eonventional danc In a nook beside " curt jazz of a superior tempo, despite the marked Harbin accent of the suxaphone.

Not a mess-jacket in sight, Or-Jderly informality reigns. A' slim youth grasps a human hippopotamus firmly about so much of the middle as his arms can encompass, and together they do the light fan: tactic to the edification of all. Thereafter the lights are dimmed, and the curtain rises. An excellent soprano claims "The Sunshine of your! Smile;" Two dancers of the "apache" type stage a refreshing roughhouse: Another does a pus soul hich commands respectful atten tion. Here is no mere "graduate of the Imperial Academy of Pogranitchaya." A deck of playing cards comes to life, the king of spudes singing of his tribulations conesrning the queen of hearts, through the machinations of the knave of clubs.

Tt is all excellently done,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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