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...declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed by such "advanced" writers as Georg Kaiser, Bernhard Kellerman, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann. Inverse Income Tax. Signor Mattia Battistini, tolerably good Italian baritone, appealed to the tax collector of Duisburg (Rhineland) last week, to be classified as a "well-known singer," and deposed under oath: "My successful career as a singer has extended over 50 years...
Shrewd, canny, hard to wheedle, the tax collector of Duisburg yielded only after much persuasion. From "ordinary singers" he is empowered to collect a 20% municipal tax on concert receipts; from "well-known singers" he may collect only...