ARTISTS IN POLAND
EIGHTPENCE A PERFORMANCE 1 . WARSAW, February 15. Of all the professions that of the artist has been most hard hit in Poland. Theatre after theatre is being closed down, and hundreds of artists are being thrown into the streets without any means whatsoever. Those who are lucky enough to find work are earning a twentieth part of what they used to get even a year ago. In Vilna, Lublin, Lodz, there are many who act for one zloty (about eightpence) a performance. In Lodz, a city of 600,000 inhabitants, once the richest manufacturing centre in Poland artists play for less than. that. Should they refuse dozens would be happy to take their place on the stage. The destitution among Polish artists is so great that a group of theatrelovers has formed a society to help them. They give them a dinner and try to find them a bed. An idea of forming travelling theatres from among the unemployed who might go about the villages and perform for bread has so far not materialised.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 April 1933, Page 8
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