HUNGARY: Dentists Maligned

"For having maligned the whole profession of dentists," the manager of the Comedy Theatre in Budapest was fined, last week, 50 pengos ($8.75). He had produced Lullaby, by satiric Dramatist Ladislaus Fodor, who makes one of his characters say: "In my youth I had scientific ambitions, but I deteriorated and became a dentist."

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