Spirited Attack on "Musie Monopoly At Annual Meeting; Problen Caused by War Round Shanghai Reviewed by Chairman 'WANTY thousand dollars, in addition to their usual contribution, will be paid' by the French Municipal Council towards the maintenance expenses of the Municipal Orchestra, it was revealed yesterday afternoon at the Annual Meeting of Ratepayers in the Grand Theatre, in the course of a lively debate on whether or not the orchestra should be retained. The amendment to the resolution proposing the adoption of the budget for 1938, which would have killed the orchestra if it had passed, was lost by a large margin.
There were 370 ratepayers present.
In a spirited attack on the orchestra, Mr. Robert L. Stewart, who proposed the amendment, said that Shanghai had long been in the hands of a "music monopoly".
The orchestra, he said, "poisoned economies" and impaired efficiency. He spoke for more than forty minutes, and was roundly applauded. He was opposed by Messrs. H. E. Arnhold, E. F.
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