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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16404, 26 December 1918, Page 8

Two stories of Bolshevik rule are toldi gays the London 'Daily News") by a erman musician, who Has been .in Russia for three years or more. In response to a demand for a war bonus, the Government allotted to the . staff or . the Moscow Conservatoire (now 'called, by the way, "The People's Palace of Music") a sum of £20,000, on condition LK that it should be divided equally. The instruction -was carried out tothe let- . ter, .and the charwoman got exactly as much as the director. .The seoond story Hi shows, incidentally, that tenors we not li§| always so w stupid as is generally be--M lieved. At one of the State theatres everybody was receiving an equal salary. Vne day tbeleading tenor had not ap- ® peered in his dressing-room a fewminutes before the. opera was to bfecin. He was discovered on the ; staira selling pro- M grammes. His answer to the distracted managers appeal was that as he was be paid the same whatever Ho S did, he preferred the easier- work, and * ~l„ e^ r °^i^ e " Belle , r could his - ?irfSZ Wlt f h^ he that former ' oTtte Ktote.we r(atore4 to: j