The Tokyo theatre proprietors propose to protest against taxation of seats by opening the theatres free for admission. That is about the least objectionable sort of propaganda we have heard of for a long time. The public will like it the better the longer it lasts.

A new Theatre with a seating capacity of thirteen hundred people and fitted with up-to-date technology is under construction near Queen's Road Central opposite D'Aguilar Street. The theatre will be 65 feet high, 212 feet long and 63 feet wide. The humungous Theatre will have twice the…