25 Professer Bernhandi
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KORLD.,
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Date of 1ssue.
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JONE
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10 50
Professor Bernhardl.“ now runnins
at the Embassy, has proved so successkul
that Ronald Adam has decided to keep it
on for a third weck.
Nr. Adam tells me that ihis famous
piav Gummeas caused more
controversy and arscission than any
ether play at the Embassy during his
four years of management.
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EXTRACT FROM
EVENING NEWS
Northoliffe House, E.C.4
29 UU0N 1936
Classie Mr. Coward
PRODUCER of his lather’s play,“ Pro¬
fessor Bernhardi.“ at pur Embassy
2
Theatre. Herr Heinrich Schnitzler is a man
—
who has already done well in Vienna and
Berlin: his production of Shaw's“ Million¬
airess,“ not yet played in London, was a
great success in Vienna last year.
Herr Schnitzler says that English plays
are nearly always liked in Germany and
Austria, He calls the plays of Shaw, Gals¬
worthy, Somerset Maugham, and Noel
Coward—if you please!—English“ classics.
Going English
AST winter, of about thirty plays pro¬
+
duced at the leading Vienna theatres,
a round dozen, Herr Schnitzler tells me.
were by English authors.
Dodie Smith appears to have won a fol¬
lowing in both Germany and Austria: her
Call It a Day“ had a very long run.
So fashionable in Austria are English
plays that yvoung Austrian authors are not
only influenced by English ideas in the
plays they write but adopt English-sound¬
ing names.
WHO TOLD VOU THAT ?
*Voll seem to be in trouble?“ ob¬
served the prison chaplain.
Bad news from ’ome, guv'nor,“ ex¬
plained the burglar.
My brother’s gorn
into the work’ouse—the fust ter disgrace
our family, sir!“
box 3175
EXTRACT FROM
DAILV MIRROR,
Geraldine House, Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane,
E.C.4
2 JUIV 1936
Date -
Rons Adam tells me that “ Professor
Bernhardi“ has caused more heated argu¬
ment than any play put on at the Embassy
during the four years of his management.
The point is whether in certain circum¬
stances a doctor has the right to forbid
a priest access to a dying patient.
Cutting from—
S
A
r
KORLD.,
—
NENSOF ARE AI
Date of 1ssue.
8 C
JONE
K C
10 50
Professor Bernhardl.“ now runnins
at the Embassy, has proved so successkul
that Ronald Adam has decided to keep it
on for a third weck.
Nr. Adam tells me that ihis famous
piav Gummeas caused more
controversy and arscission than any
ether play at the Embassy during his
four years of management.
—.—
s
EXTRACT FROM
EVENING NEWS
Northoliffe House, E.C.4
29 UU0N 1936
Classie Mr. Coward
PRODUCER of his lather’s play,“ Pro¬
fessor Bernhardi.“ at pur Embassy
2
Theatre. Herr Heinrich Schnitzler is a man
—
who has already done well in Vienna and
Berlin: his production of Shaw's“ Million¬
airess,“ not yet played in London, was a
great success in Vienna last year.
Herr Schnitzler says that English plays
are nearly always liked in Germany and
Austria, He calls the plays of Shaw, Gals¬
worthy, Somerset Maugham, and Noel
Coward—if you please!—English“ classics.
Going English
AST winter, of about thirty plays pro¬
+
duced at the leading Vienna theatres,
a round dozen, Herr Schnitzler tells me.
were by English authors.
Dodie Smith appears to have won a fol¬
lowing in both Germany and Austria: her
Call It a Day“ had a very long run.
So fashionable in Austria are English
plays that yvoung Austrian authors are not
only influenced by English ideas in the
plays they write but adopt English-sound¬
ing names.
WHO TOLD VOU THAT ?
*Voll seem to be in trouble?“ ob¬
served the prison chaplain.
Bad news from ’ome, guv'nor,“ ex¬
plained the burglar.
My brother’s gorn
into the work’ouse—the fust ter disgrace
our family, sir!“
box 3175
EXTRACT FROM
DAILV MIRROR,
Geraldine House, Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane,
E.C.4
2 JUIV 1936
Date -
Rons Adam tells me that “ Professor
Bernhardi“ has caused more heated argu¬
ment than any play put on at the Embassy
during the four years of his management.
The point is whether in certain circum¬
stances a doctor has the right to forbid
a priest access to a dying patient.