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...offend a New York policeman in order to causes the doors of its theatre to be padlocked, and the author, producer, owner, and cast to be subject to various fines and sentences," Mr. Hamilton continued. "Yet, some form of censorship is necessary. The cities are everrun with the nouveaux-riches, who have developed into theatre-going crowds since the war, just like white worms swarm out of the ground when you lift up a big, flat stone, These people can buy $5.50 theatre tickets indefinitely to satisfy their morbid curiosity for common filth...
...France the difficulty is diametrically opposite. One M. Vantel, writing in "Cipano" finds that cook and dentist, nouveaux and clerk are all wearing the Legion of Honour. The Legion, it seems has become no more exclusive than a Long Island home site or a Miami country Club. M. Vantel suggests a sort of suicide by which members of the legion will voluntarily retire "for the glory of France." Or they might draw lots, or play eenie-meenie-minie...
...Subscribers and I believe my attitude toward TIME is typical of the old guard. We do not want TIME changed! Since occasional younger fry - subscribers with only half a dozen copies on the shelf - delight to flay you, may I draw my quill in your defense ? Some of these nouveaux readers have criticized your repetition of "famed" (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 2). May I state that the old guard likes TIME'S distinctive and original use of "one" and "famed" which you employ before the name of an individual exactly as Baedecker used one or two asterisks to indicate...
...Policy, or NEP, as it is hastily called, permitted the reopening of private trade and speculation in marketing. Small cliques of vigorous and illiterate men have rapidly risen in each city through trade in potatoes and wheat. The cabarets and hotels are again flourishing under the patronage of these nouveaux riches. As yet manufacture has remained in government hands partly because of legal and political impediments and partly because of lack of sufficiently large accumulations of private capital. As a reservoir of capital is formed from commercial profits, the industrial field will soon cease to be monopolized by the government...
...grade nouveaux riches...