Non-Stop Variety is now quite an old word in London, and there are no fewer than full swine now, two of them being converted cinemas. I don't know. if "News Flicks" have come to Shanghai yet, but there are lots of these amusing Tittle things all over London now. You pay 6d, or 1/6—if you are taking your friend out and wish to impress her—and for this you get an hour's splendid entertainment. Tt usually consists chiefly Jof news items, a travel film, that has Some sort of story, though it is of rather secondary importance, and a Mickey Mouse, or Comic Cat, or something of that sort; and I might say here that the sixpenny seats are really every. bit: as -guod as. the mare exalted ones, and. the only thing needed to. make the news
5m, a8 they are always crowded, perter is bigger houses, for and one has to stand, Grand Guignol is taking a hold on [London once more, and the days of the villain "in permanent. evening Jévess, the blonde heroine with no more' intelligence. than a child of two, but with a high and somewhat unbelievable sense of Honour to balance it, are returning, but with a difference. London is definitely becoming gayer, but let us hope that the reformers do not try to go too far, Tet them be contented with What they have done. Above all, let them beware of trespassing on' the real London, that is gathering its skirts closer' and Keeping mote itself, let them beware of profaning Fleet' street, Bloomsbury, Holborn they must' leave those' places "to their quiet respectability, and' beware of disturbing their ghosts.
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