Berlin, Jan. 3.
'Theatrical circles are startled by the suicide of the prominent produc~ ud playwright Walter Stein'
is said to be due to heavy monetary losses. Coupled with the recent financial difficulties encounter-Berlin's largest amusement palace, Walter Stein's suicide is viewed not only as reflecting the general financial difficult situation of the country, but also as foreshadowing the impending col lapse of the amusement industry which, during the period of the monetary inflation following after the war, rose to unprecedented heights, only to face now the inevitable re-adjustment through disaster.
crisis has been brought about by the foreign visitors who provide the main contingent of the Visitors to the places of amusement! and whose demand for a greater and constantly changing variety of expenditure of sums which, in the Tong run, the greater part of the amusement places cannot meet.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.