BOLSHEVIK EQUALITY
Two stories of Bolshevik rule are told (saytf , the London "Daily News") by a Gorman musician who had been in Russia for throo years or more. In response to a demand for a war bon\is the Government allotted to the staff of the Moscow Conservatoire (now callefT, by the way, "The People's Palace of Music") a sum of .£20,000, on condition that it should be divided cciually. The instruction was carried out to the letter, and the charwoman got exactly as much as the director. The second story shows, incidentally, that tenors are not always so stupid as is generally believed. At one of the State theatres everybody was receiving an equal salary. One clay, Ihe leading tenor had not appeared in his dressing-room a few minutes before the opera was to begin. Ho was discovored on the stairs selling programmes. His answer to the distracted manager's appeal was that he was soin? to be paid the same whatever he did, he preferred the easier work, and the programme seller could takn his place—with the result that the .former palaiies of the artists were restored to them at once.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 72, 19 December 1918, Page 5
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191BOLSHEVIK EQUALITY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 72, 19 December 1918, Page 5
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