Crows as Cinema Fans the Editor of the "wNontH-CINE Datty News!
'Sm—We are living in stirring times' in China, in a time when banditry is rampant throughout the Jength and breadth of the land, with floods playing havoc in Hankow and the surrounding districts, and kidnapping being practiced on a lavish scale in the modern international city of Shanghai, 1 would draw your attention to the eighth wonder the world which is to be found in Bubbling Well Road in the viol Majestic Lawn Cinema. Lined up in countless numbs 2 the electrical wires running p: with that Cinema may be seen every, evening countless "scores. of crows} who offer their benedictions to} chance passers-by who happen to be passing that vicinity in pursuit} of some errand or other. Fat crows and lean crows, happy ones and sad ones,'wicked birds and kind hearted ones, honest and cunning ones are lined up in regular order on the wires and the outlying trees listening to the strains of music, to the senndals of Hollywood and to the news items which are given by the the Fox Movietone announcer, There was a time when these pests built, their nests in the near
they could rub elbows with Shang-vicinity ofthe Country Club, where hal's lite, but hearing of the Majestic Lawn Cinema they took wing leaving behind them their old haunts for more congenial quarters where they could with comfort listen to the pleasing voices of Reginal Denny and Maurice Che:
Het, enjoy, the wise cracks Wheeler & Woolsey, and feast their eyes on the bathing beauties of Hollywood. What more congou! and ravishing pastime were possible in birdland I ask?
Now it is well-known that a crow is a wise but cunning bird. order therefore to put an end such pests one must meet guile. by guile. I would offer the humble Suggestion that a live electrical wire be erected and drawn parallel with the existing comfortable seats on which these birds recline, and when these nocturnal visitors semble for the evening show, the current should then be turned on thereby putting an end to the would be nefarious designs of these mar-anders of peaceful passer-by. The next step would be. to gather the carcasses, have the feathers pluck: ed, prepare the meat and have it shipped in cold storage to Hankow.
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