Embassy Utilized As Home for Refugees: Stage Presents Real Human Drama ie once famous old Embassy Theatre in Bubbling Well Road, ow dilapidated after years of disuse, is playing its last tragedy—a Beggars' Opera in name at all events—to a crowded house of refugees.
Its patrons arrive on foot in pathetic processions; its price of admission is the brand of the homeless, the storm-tossed by strife; its endless bill is a home for those whose home would be the street, a mat in place of a stone-cold doorstep, a bowl of rice for those who would otherwise scavenge or starve.
There are still attendants in the foyer but their band-box clothes and made-to-order smiles are gone. Two Chinese girls with the arm bands of volunteer nurses dispense medicine from the counter where in the old
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.