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At Hotel an odd custom prevails of using a native servant to take care of your rooms & do personal service. The result is the chamber boy is eliminated at the hotel & they have even eliminated the push button which rings him up. Altho the Gt. Eastern is a fine hotel there is no telephone service in the rooms. At 9:30 PM I went to the only play in town, a mixed affair at the Empire Theater by the Bandmans who are a fixture here. The audience was the interesting feature. In the stalls were men & women in evening dress, the men in black chiefly as at home & the women in white or high evening gowns. Most of the wives were large robust English women, in good health & cheerful. Scarcely a slender

Transcription Notes:
In 1908 Maurice Bandman built the Empire Theatre in Calcutta.