II, Theaterstücke 25, Professor Bernhardi. Komödie in fünf Akten (Ärztestück, Junggesellenstück), Seite 668

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* PROFESSOR BERNHAROI,'' hy Arthur
Schmtoler (Embasss).— The storp of a mountaln that
was macke out ef a molehill. A brilliant Jervish doctor
resuses t0 allose a priest to see a dying girl, and although

hie was in ihe rigli ihe incident became a political
sensation and he is imprisoned. Abraham Sojaer acts
zinely as ile persecuted doctor, and there are manz
other excellent studkies.
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346, Strand, W.0.2.
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THE SPHERE
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LATSPTLIIS, AND
The Embassy, Home of Winning Causes,
does it Again: Basil, Blum, and Ballet
—An Historical Film without George
1
Arliss in the Lead!

author I suspect to be on the side of the docior, particularly
when the whole town is sent into a pother by his action, and anti¬
2
Semitism inevitably puts its ugly finger in the pie, although not
to any great extent. Also, Schnitzler is obviously an anti¬
Clericalist.
I make no apology for thus dealing at length with a play at
an outlying theatre, a play
which may never come to cen¬ —
tral London, and would pro¬
bably lose möney if it did. It
has more merit in it both as a

play and as an inducement for

some good hard thinking than
the whole of, theatrically speak¬
ing, Shaftesbury Avenue and
the Strand put together.
The acting is flawless.
Mr. Abraham Sofaer plays the
Jew doctor with all ihe dignity
and subtlety of the best types
of his race; since the retirement
of Henry Ainley the British
stage has surely known no finer
BRIGHT FARE AT THE ST. MARTIN’S: Two episodes in the new comedy, Heroes Don' Care. Lest—
voice than this. The part of
Sir Edward Pakenham (Felix Aylmer; centre) and his attractive wife Polly (Carol Goodner) are preparing
to retire for the night—their last together before he leaves on a Polar expeditionwhen a member
the priest is less showy, but
of the party (Frederick Piper) brings a telegram saying some of the stores have been mislaid.
Mr. Bernard Merefield was
Right—Connie Crawford (Coral Brown), the aviatrix whohas set her heart on accompanyingthe expedition
equally striking. Mr. Alan
Wheatley and Mr. Ronald
Adam were other important elements
in a team which had no tail.

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