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played [[underlined]] musical operette [[/underlined]] which is a [[underlined]] relief of all the Jazz music one hears here and in Germany. [[/underlined]] 
The theatre was full. The best seats sold at $3.00. The [[underlined]] horrible smell of the nearby toilet rooms [[/underlined]] so characteristic [[underlined]] for most theatres in Europe was again a painful experience. [[/underlined]] - Why does the board of health not interfere even if these bejewelled, expensively dressed people are so callous as not to notice it. Same thing in [[strikethrough]] France [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] Paris and in Hamburg. 
Besides my cold my stomach is rather out of order. I have not felt well since I left my Swedish steamer. [[/underlined]] I shall [[underlined]] abstain from eating for a day or two [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Sept 19, [[/underlined]] 1927. Went to get my [[underlined]] passport visaed for Hungary. [[/underlined]] Found a small [[underlined]] ill smelling room crowded [[/underlined]] to
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capacity with a [[underlined]] smelly mixture [[/underlined]] of humanity, lorded over by some clumsy ill mannered official, and behind the chalk stained windows of the office. [[strikethrough]] The slowest the slowest [[/strikethrough]] a [[underlined]] set of slow, pretentious incompetent blundering employees ready at any time to fly into a heated argument between each others or the applicants [[/underlined]] and blundering their work so that to have a passport visaed and paying a few Dollars took all of [[underlined]] 3 hours! [[/underlined]] So that the best thing was to get out, [[underlined]] tip the lordly overseer and come back in the afternoon. [[/underlined]]
Went to visit more museums. I notice [[underlined]] many German tourists here, living and travelling expenses being less to day than in Germany.  
People [[/underlined]] in the street and everywhere [[underlined]] appear kind and polite and very different from the Germans in Germany [[/underlined]]