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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 49, 26 February 1918, Page 7

A Hastings soldier in France, writing to a friend, has the following to say concerning a picture theatre behind the lines-: —"wo have a bit of a picture show back a little way. It's a fine building—l don't know who drew the plans, etc., but he must have boen some good at the architect game. You haven't got a theatre like it in Hastings. I'll try and give you some idea what it's like. Well, to start with, it's about 8 or 9 feet, high and made of bits of iron, wood, sacks, and sandbags, and lots of other things; any amount of ventilation, in fact half thoroDf is left oft' for that, but the best part is the inside. It's pretty, you bet. Tho aisle has scats—a few boxes and tins, and the floor is mud (in the winter it's snow and ice). Tho whole place is well lit, a few candles round the sides, and when the show is about to start someone goes round and blows the lights out, and then everything is ready, but if it's a moonlight night the thing isn't a,'-success, but you get your money back at the door. So you 200 it'a some theatre—isn't f.t!"