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Theatre. The quack medicines of the Shanghae fifties, guaranteed to cure sithing from ague to corns, have given way to. sclentife fume, malts, and olls, which, merely hhope'to "relieve" the cause for their Efficiency vs. Leisure bachelor's ball the races in 1851 was followed by a careful enquiry on the next as to what ill effects its strenuous ness had had upon the ladies. night life in Shanghai now is famous around the world and the many cafe, -eabaret, roof-garden, and hotel advertisements which fil the paper every day are not together necessary, Nineteen thirty Shanghai does its best to ram as much efficiency into its nights as into its days.
'And there envious reminiscences may be justified, Leisure, once became a habit, makes of efficiency a tired clown. "That telephones, lee-trio fans," and typewriters' are indispensable even grandmother admits. But it is the fervour and fever of the twentieth century which makes them 50.
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