In other spheres the life, of the colony is making its bravest attempts to go back to normal. Schools are re-opening, and even a new one—the Pushkin High School—has made its appearance. The building of the school is specially suited to scholastic work, and a excellent staff of teachers, all men of wide experience and high qualifications, has been selected It may be definitely stated that no Russian middle school in Shanghai has so far had a staff of teachers so distinguished as this one. As regarding the Commetcial School of the Russian Orthodox Confraternity, its premises were, as is known, temporarily taken by the Emergency Cholera Hospital. When this occurred, Dr. D. L Kasakoff, President of the Russian Orthodox Confraternity, notified the teachers that they were released from their duties. Later a re-registration of the staff was announced, and at present pupils are once more being accepted. A religious ceremony before the start of the new term was conducted yesterday by Bishop John, and to-day studies are being resumed.
Grand Opera Begins The theatrical life of the Russian colony is being pursued to the full The Russian Drama has successfully opened its season with a production of the new sparkling comedy "Moment of Destiny" which describes the life of Russian emigrants in Paris; Grand Opera, whose artists and directors are all Russian, has with general approval begun its existence; and on October 14 the Russian Light Opera will hold its opening night in the Lyceum Theatre. Many foreigners have more than once expressed their surprise that "in times like these" Russians can hope to have any mone tary success with the stage; but it must be kept in mind that all these brave beginnings were organized at a time when none could suspect that Shanghai would become the arena of a stubborn military conflict, and that besides it is in "times like these" that the public wants, if only in the evening, to relax and forget the unpleasantness of the day. In Madrid the situation was worse than here. but cinemas and theatres never closed.
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