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P.T. 巴纳姆：奋斗与胜利·补录 205
P.T. 巴纳姆《奋斗与胜利》· Struggles and Triumphs · 领导
Of course this law was nearly a dead letter; for, to have taken forty-five per cent of my gross receipts at every exhibition would soon have driven me from the provinces, so the hospitals were generally content with ten per cent, and five or ten francs a day satisfied the manager of a provincial theatre. But at Bordeaux the manager of the theatre wished to engage the General to appear in his establishment, and as I declined his offer, he threatened to debar me from exhibiting anywhere in town, by demanding for himself the full twenty per cent the law allowed, besides inducing the directors of the hospitals to compel me to pay them twenty-five per cent more.
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定位：Additional excerpt 205 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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法国当时规定，演出收入要抽很大比例给医院和剧院，但这条法律基本形同虚设：真按百分之四十五抽，巴纳姆早被赶出外省了，所以医院通常只收一成，地方剧院经理每天拿五到十法郎也就满意。可在波尔多，剧院经理要请小将军去他那里演，巴纳姆拒绝后，对方就威胁：要么按法律允许的百分之二十抽成，要么别想在城里演，还鼓动医院董事再逼他多交百分之二十五。这是典型的用规则当武器、联手施压。巴纳姆没有硬碰，而是另找场地破局。
上下文
巴纳姆在法国巡演时遇到地方剧院经理和医院利用抽成法规联手刁难，本段交代冲突起因。
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遇到有人拿规则当武器逼你就范时，你能不能先找一条规则之外的出路？
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