Shanghai's Hotel and Dancing Resorts Packed With Joyous Crowds With the blaring of saxophones and the banging of drums,—the New Year was welcomed _by thousands of merry-makers at the Shanghai hotels and cabarets _on Friday night and into the _carly hours' of the morning. Festively decorated, offering special entertain. ments, giving generous gifts to the ladies, amidst a medley of balloons, serpentines and confetti; the dance floors of Shanghai presented spectacle of gaiety and good cheer} as the memories of the old year} with its worries and its episodes faded into the prospects of a happier new year.
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