Brecht: "No more than 80!"

[Michael Hoover <HooverM@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Fritz Kortner:

I was then at work on a film about Garibaldi, which was in the making.
The reading I had to do in connection with this film opened my eyes to
the backward conditions of Italy.  I learned about the brothels in the
seaports of Italy, frequented by sailors and seaman in such great
numbers that it was not unusual for a girl to service over a hundred
clients a day.  I expressed my horror to Brecht.  Brecht opined: "You
liberals say that more than a hundred is inhuman?  No more than
eighty!"

From: Bertolt Brecht: His Life, His Art, His Times by Frederic Ewen
p.417