The Archive · 1937

Film Programmes for Troops

Grand Theatre Run Pictures at Race Club Not all is work for Shanghai's defence force these days.

In their rest hours, means of recreation and amusement are now being provided. One of the best of these is the programme of pictures shown thrice weekly at the Race Club, for the benefit of the Welch Fusiliers and the S.V.C. billetted in the stands.

This cinema programme has been arranged with the ce-operation of the Grand Theatre, who moved two of their projectors across and rigged up a screen in front of the stands. Here, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and) Saturdays, the men crowd into the stands to watch and to forget for a bit the sterner side of their life, into which the S.V.C., at least have been so suddenly thrown,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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