ART AND WAR
“One of the cleverest conductors at the Opera Comique, in Paris,** states Mr Joseph Hislop, “receives the meagre sum of 60 francs, or roughly 10s a day. The payment of certain conductors in Belgium is on a similar scale.**
But over in Germany the famous Bruno Walter draws 100,000 gold marks, or £5,000, for a season, and fills other engagements in England and America. Money, it appears, flows easily in Germany when it is a question of art. Yet—who won the war?
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 156, 22 September 1927, Page 16
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85ART AND WAR Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 156, 22 September 1927, Page 16
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