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carriage waiting.  Mine took me up to new [[red underline]] Casa Grande Hotel [[/red underline]] which belongs to RR Company, situated higher part of city.  Was very glad to find clean comfortable room with shower bath for myself.  Room overlooks [[strikethrough]] Plaza [[/strikethrough]] antique Plaza.

March 5./ Excellent night's sleep.  Up very early on account of noise below, of vehicles and loud talk like usually
Beautiful sight over [[strikethrough]] harbor [[/strikethrough]] bay [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] with mountain range in distance.  This Plaza is the setting in which Richard Harding Davis put his scenes of "Soldiers of Fortune"
I am told that when the film of the Photo-play was made here many of the inhabitants as well as the soldiers helped to impersonate and
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that last week the photoplay was produced here for the benefit of the Belgians and had a great success and that on this occasion the audience was specially "interested" to recognize the players who are locally known here.  I met a certain Mr. Fenton at lunch, who just came from Miami and is now one of the engineers of the electric tram lines.  He took me around town on the tram cars.  Evening I invited him for supper at the famous [[red underline]] Venus Hotel [[/red underline]] which is still the fashionable restaurant of the town where the better residents congregate and lounge and sip their coffee before the open windows which face the little park-square.  Afterwards he took me to a comical play, "La festa bubonica en Santiago."  Play well played the main character being a Gallego, a negro and a Cuban which it appears are the ever recurring