To the Editor of the "Norri-Cuina Datty News"
Sm—I see from your issue to-day that the Settlement's position continues to show a very definite improvement.
Why don't the cinemas reopen" every resident of the Settlement and Concession seem to be asking this same question I have heard that the theatre owners are willing to open if there is both public need and public demand. I sure the public will agree that it is just what we need at the present time, we will then have two hours of absorption in something beside the war, and I am sure Shanghai will only then be back to normal life again.
I am against the operation of cabarets and dancing halls which might easily offend Chinese sensibility ies. No thinking person could advocate public merry making in a time of natural crisis, but the cinemas, are quiet, decent, inexpensive, and a chance at an occasional cinema showing would be the best sort of mental relaxation for every nationslity needs that at the present juncture.
Chinese nerves require soothing as much as foreign ones and I hope that they will agree with me that:—"Shanghai Cinemas Should Reopen."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.