up.
The gold industry has grown up. And the diamond and gold millionaires
have grown up, too. Today's leaders of the diamond industry—notably Sir
Ernest Oppenheimer, the present chairman of De Beers, and his son
Harry—are quiet, self-effacing, public-spirited men. In the old days,
the South African millionaires, as a class, were anything but
self-effacing; in 1902, they were lampooned in The Girl From Kay's, a
popular musical that was staged in London. The leading male character
was billed as "Max Hoggenheimer, a South African millionaire," but he
was more generally referred to by the shopgirls, bathing girls, and
hot-spot girls to whom he was partial as "Piggy." "Piggy will pay, pay,
pay!" the ladies of the chorus caroled blithely as they went through
their dance routines. And in the finale the heroine sang:
