OPERA PRICES.
GERMAN SCHEME FAILS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Berlin, Sept. 3. The popular craze of charging foreigners treble rates compared with local people resulted in amazing scenes at the opening of the winter season opera. The theatre resembled a frontier, and was placarded with notices: “Have your passports ready.” Many patrons brought their military papers as well as passports, but unfortunately omitted any means of identification of their lady friends. This resulted in exciting altercations, the attendants demanding positive proof that the lady in each case was the wife of her escort. The Germans are so well drilled in obeying orders that many brought their marriage and birth certificates and even in-come-tax papers. Those without papers underwent a searching examination in their ancestry unto the third generation. Unfortunately for the management very few foreigners paid for seats, and the expected rich harvest proved a fiasco.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1922, Page 5
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145OPERA PRICES. Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1922, Page 5
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