New illustrated architecture series, in Russian

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• Lawn Cinema, the movie theater for Russian-language films

  Lawn Cinema, just south of the French Club's tennis courts, used to have its gate on Avenue Joffre, at No. 900. It opened in June 1932 as an…

• Triangle Motors (1931–1949), the creation of Lazarus Zigalnitsky

  Some time ago I posted about auto services and garages in Shanghai. Today I was flipping through an issue of Le journal de Shanghai and came…

• The society ladies

  The twenty-year-old daughter of the jeweller Moisey Lipkovsky, Eva (second from left): "Pajamas for every occasion were worn at the recent…