GERMANY'S POPULAR CRAZE.
MAKING TEE ATJSLANOER PAY. PASSPORTS AT THE OPERA. (BecriTpd t> a.m.! BERLIN, September 4. The popular craze- of charging foreigners treble rates compered witll local people resulted in amazing scenes at the opening of the winter of the opern. The theatre reecmbled a frontier, placarded witii notices, "llavo your passport* ready.' . Many of the patrons brought military papers us well as juiKiiportii, but. unfortunately oniittc.l any means of identification of their lady" friend?. This resulted iti exciting "altercation*, the attendants demanding positive proof that the lady in ooeh case was the wife of her escort.
Germans aro so well drilled in obeying orders that many brought marriage and birth certificates, even income tax jmpcrs. These without papers underwent aeurcning ancestry examination unto tho third generation. Cnfurttinatclv fi>r Uic inanugement, very few foreigner* puid for seat*, and the espei'lcd rich harvest proved a fiasco.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 210, 5 September 1922, Page 5
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146GERMANY'S POPULAR CRAZE. Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 210, 5 September 1922, Page 5
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