NIGHT, LIFE IN MADRID.
MAKES DAYLIGHT BURGLARS; Burglars in Spain find that their victims are so sleepy in mid-afternoon and so wide awake at night, that the best time for their stealthy operations comes in broad daylight. Police records show ' that the favourite hours for housebreaking are from 3 to 5 p.m. It is the custom there to stop up most of the night, start business next day around 10 or 11 o'clock in the morning, close up everything about 1.30 or 2 o'clock and pass the next three hours in eating and sleeping, It is around 5 o'clock in the afternoon before business houses reopen. . v Thqatres commence the night performances at 11 o'clock. Matinees are at .6 p.m. No other hours for theatres are possible under the Spanish scheme of life.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 275, 21 November 1929, Page 22
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133NIGHT, LIFE IN MADRID. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 275, 21 November 1929, Page 22
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