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                    From:  A_HOUSE_IN_BALI

      A night at the cinema, in Bali in the mid-30s:

      "We drove sixty miles to dine festively at the
      Chinese restaurant and sit through an
      interminable Tom Mix film. The audience
      scented the plot in the first three minutes.
      They recognized at once the prince, the
      princess and the demon king.  They cheered the
      fights and flights as though they were at the
      shadow-play.  They rose jeeringly and slightly
      scandalized at the final embrace and
      laughingly filed out the doors into the night."

             --  p. 112

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