The Archive · 1938

Wanted to Purchase and for Sale

We purchase all kinds of high-class furniture, carpets, pianos, typewriters, radios and household effects at a fair price, We also sell the above-mentioned goods at the lowest prices. (Only a little profit is added on the cost of what we purchased). Apply to the Chesterfield Art Secondhand Goods Store, 1469 Bubbling Well Road. Telephone 36334, today turn towards the Far East. and the family of Mr. Schukin are, according to him, the first to reach Shanghai. More Russians whose existence in Iran has become impossible due to the strong native competition with foreigners which is aided by the government, are expected to arrive here shortly.

New Religion Els A recent letter to the Editor of the N.C.D.N. on the New Religion and its Prophecies has attracted considerable attention among Rússians—all the more so as it was not difficult ior them to guess who it was hiding behind the initials L.V.G. Special interest was created by the prediction of a revolution in Russia in the year 1939, and of a momentous event thet is to occur in Moscow before the end of the month. All these auguries were translated by the Russian press, whose readers have settled down to a three weeks' wait before one prediction at any rate is due to come true.

The necessity to conform to the regulations of the Japanese authorities regarding the transportation of property in districts under their occupation has been stressed by the Russian Emigrants' Committee. As many chauffeurs with no passes have been halted, the Emigrants' Committee advises owners of automobiles who take on the transportation of goods to first make sure that the necessary pass has been procured. The responsibility for breaking the regulations is borne not by employees or people happening to be in the ['automobile, but by the actual owners. The, Emigrants' Committee warns that it can give no help to parties who disregard this notice.

Encouraged by the success of "Don Quixote," the Russian Ballet will shortly present the famous "Swan Lake." It, was this triumph of the musical genius of Tchaikowski that opened the last ballet season in London. The ballet will be presented locally according to the full musical text of pre-war days which has been treasured through the years by Maestro A. J. Sloutsky. The ballet's libretto is written by the composer's brother, Modeste Tchaikowski, and the direction will be in the hands of Ballet master F. F. Schevlugin, who often appeared in this ballet in prerevolutionary Russia.

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