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Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 334, 4 March 1915, Page 3

Life in Cairo may not be quite what some parents wish for their sons, but on the principle that "experience teaches," it will, in some respects at any rate, prove a desirable change. That there are other novel and healthy places of entertainment besides the low quarters of which we have Rlready heard too much, is shown in the following excerpt from a letter written by one who evidently reaps much that is worth while garnering in the social field of soldiering:—"One can sit out in front of the hotels here, and while having a drink or something to eat, witness a picture show, free gratis. In most of the main streets, large boards are to be seen, on the corners, much like a ' bill placard board,' but these are erected by hotel and tavernkeepers to provide amusement for their customers in the form of pictures. The orchestras are simply divine, and I really never heard such delightful music as these Easterners provide. Needless to say, the instrumentalists are mostly foreigners, such as Italian, Greeks, and naturalised or neutral Germans (if such term can be applied to them. > "