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Five-act Comedy
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1928
August 17
40 X 74
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A physician of Shakesperian nobility triumphs over ant i¬
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Semitism and petty intrigue
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Dr. Bernhardi, head of a great Vionnese hospital, finds
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himself impelled to persuade a Catholic priest that his
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presence at the side of a dying girl will demolish tho
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happiness of her last hour — possibly the only happy
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hour of her life, as she believos she will recover. The
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information, given by a nun, that the priost has come to
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administer the last rites, so shocks the girl that she
dies while the Doctor is arguing with the priest.
This action on the. part of the physician is made a çause
celebre by the clerical political party. The physichans
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ef the hospital are dividod in their smathies, and in
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the midd'o of an exciting meeting, Dr. Bernhardi re¬
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signs his headship. Ho is further persocuted with a
par Lianentary invostigation, and is convictod to sorve
this classic drama of
inst itutional intrigue
two months in jai1
and anti-semitism seven¬
Abovo the pettiness of most of the other characters —
even of the excitable fuss iness of some of thos e wio
toon years ago, when he
side with him — Dr. Bernhardi rises like a great human
was still in active
tower. He is clearly swayed by only what he knows to be
practise as a physician.
richt, and spurns the political aspects of the situaticn.
Before the publication of
his novellettes ho was
At the same time, he is profcundly moved by the personal
preblens imrolved, and he ccmos out of the play one of
knoun chiof ly in the U.S.
those rare characters who are both righteous and love¬
as the author of the
able. His release from prison finds him the possessor
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of the love and admiration not only of his old associ¬
BERNHARDI wi11 show him
atos, but of tho pepulaco in gonoral, and ovon of his
to be master of a larger
former antagonists — inc luding the priest vho had beon
and more sorious mediun.
kopt from tho dying gir1.
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