box 31
25. Professor Bernhandi
GRATS
56
BSERVE
99
—
L. österr. behördl. konzessioniertes Unternehmen für
7
Zeitungs-Ausschnitte
6
E 2
WIEN, I., WOLLZELLE 11
= 33
bu vun
PBEENUN PE-
4 15
8
=E 3
Ausschnitt aus: „NEUES WIENER JOURNAL“
S S 2
2 2
*
25 JUL 938
E 5
vom.
8
□
2
E S 5
(Aus der Gesellschaft.) Königinmutter Maria von Rumämen
wohnte einer Aufführung von Artur Schnitzlers „Pröfessor
Bernhardi“ im Londoner Phön=] Theater bei. In ihrer Gesellschaft
befanden sich ihr Schwiegersohn Erzherzog Anton und Erz¬
herzogin Ileana sowie der österreichische Gesandte Baron
8
Franckenstein.—
EXTRACT FROM
Pana
Dase 2 5 JI1936—
PROFESSOR
BERNHARDI
Ronald Adam's presentation,
Protessor Bernhardi. ab the Plc-
nix Theatre, is strong 100d lor our
&
hungry Jewish friends. The late
Arthur Schnitzler's play is based
upon the political persecution of
Dat
the Jews in Austria, hence Vienna
is the seat of the story.
When the Jewish surgeon refuses
the Reverend Father permission to
enter the ward and administer the
last sacrament to the dying gir!
because his medical experience tells
him it would be to her detriment.
he shoulders a grave responsibility
and the play shows how he has to
suffer for his convictions, although
they are misinterpreted.
Abraham Sofaer’s interpretation
of the title role is a masterpiece and
his acting as this Jewish surgeon
needs seeing to be appreciated. He
is supported by a brilliant cast, but
special mention might be made of
Joh. Garside's exquisite perform¬
ance as old Professor Cyprian.
It is a play well worth secing and
another of Ronald Adam’s Swiss
Cottage Embassy Theatre produc¬
tions which has come to the West¬
End for, we hope, a good run.
W. N. M.
B
EXTRACT FROM
MIDDLESEX COUNTY TIMES,
61, Broadway, Ealing, W.5.
□11 936
2
Date—
Pheenix Theatre
The transference of the realistic
Anstrian medical play, Professor
Bernhardi.“ to the Pheenix Theatre.
Charing Cros-road, where it has been
welcomed by large audiences, will!
bring a larger public under its dramatic
and histrionic spell.
The refusal of a Jewish doctor.
based solely on his conception of duty.
to allow a priest to worry a dying
patient, seems a trivial ineident to
English people, especially as the
patient promptly dies on hearing fron.
an incautious nurse that the priest is
coming; but it sets in motion a curious
conflict ef rival fanaticisms—pro and
anti-clerical. pro and anti-semitic—
and political chicanery, self-seeking and
double-dealing over appointments to
the hospital over which the Jew pre¬
sides following his forced resignation.
Throughout all the turmoil Bern¬
hardi is the only character remaining
rigidly true to principle, though
that
the priest admits privately
doctor,
the Jew was right as a
and the nurse, on whose evidence
condemned, withdraws
was
he
her allegations. The central episode
of the play is the stormy hospital
board meeting, the conflicting passions
of which, while Bernhardi keeps cool,
is wonderfully enacted by a clever
group of actors.
Abraham Sofaer is superb in the
title-role, and he is well supported by
a competent company thoroughly
versed in character impersonation.
1936
HxraAur Paon
THE SPHERE,
346, Strand, W.C.2.
THE ORIGIN OF THE TROUBLE: Schnitzler’s power¬
ful play, Professor Bernburdi, at- the Pheenix
Theatre, turns on this refusal of the docton
(Abraham Sofaer) to allow the priest (Bernard
Mereffield) access to a dying patient
25. Professor Bernhandi
GRATS
56
BSERVE
99
—
L. österr. behördl. konzessioniertes Unternehmen für
7
Zeitungs-Ausschnitte
6
E 2
WIEN, I., WOLLZELLE 11
= 33
bu vun
PBEENUN PE-
4 15
8
=E 3
Ausschnitt aus: „NEUES WIENER JOURNAL“
S S 2
2 2
*
25 JUL 938
E 5
vom.
8
□
2
E S 5
(Aus der Gesellschaft.) Königinmutter Maria von Rumämen
wohnte einer Aufführung von Artur Schnitzlers „Pröfessor
Bernhardi“ im Londoner Phön=] Theater bei. In ihrer Gesellschaft
befanden sich ihr Schwiegersohn Erzherzog Anton und Erz¬
herzogin Ileana sowie der österreichische Gesandte Baron
8
Franckenstein.—
EXTRACT FROM
Pana
Dase 2 5 JI1936—
PROFESSOR
BERNHARDI
Ronald Adam's presentation,
Protessor Bernhardi. ab the Plc-
nix Theatre, is strong 100d lor our
&
hungry Jewish friends. The late
Arthur Schnitzler's play is based
upon the political persecution of
Dat
the Jews in Austria, hence Vienna
is the seat of the story.
When the Jewish surgeon refuses
the Reverend Father permission to
enter the ward and administer the
last sacrament to the dying gir!
because his medical experience tells
him it would be to her detriment.
he shoulders a grave responsibility
and the play shows how he has to
suffer for his convictions, although
they are misinterpreted.
Abraham Sofaer’s interpretation
of the title role is a masterpiece and
his acting as this Jewish surgeon
needs seeing to be appreciated. He
is supported by a brilliant cast, but
special mention might be made of
Joh. Garside's exquisite perform¬
ance as old Professor Cyprian.
It is a play well worth secing and
another of Ronald Adam’s Swiss
Cottage Embassy Theatre produc¬
tions which has come to the West¬
End for, we hope, a good run.
W. N. M.
B
EXTRACT FROM
MIDDLESEX COUNTY TIMES,
61, Broadway, Ealing, W.5.
□11 936
2
Date—
Pheenix Theatre
The transference of the realistic
Anstrian medical play, Professor
Bernhardi.“ to the Pheenix Theatre.
Charing Cros-road, where it has been
welcomed by large audiences, will!
bring a larger public under its dramatic
and histrionic spell.
The refusal of a Jewish doctor.
based solely on his conception of duty.
to allow a priest to worry a dying
patient, seems a trivial ineident to
English people, especially as the
patient promptly dies on hearing fron.
an incautious nurse that the priest is
coming; but it sets in motion a curious
conflict ef rival fanaticisms—pro and
anti-clerical. pro and anti-semitic—
and political chicanery, self-seeking and
double-dealing over appointments to
the hospital over which the Jew pre¬
sides following his forced resignation.
Throughout all the turmoil Bern¬
hardi is the only character remaining
rigidly true to principle, though
that
the priest admits privately
doctor,
the Jew was right as a
and the nurse, on whose evidence
condemned, withdraws
was
he
her allegations. The central episode
of the play is the stormy hospital
board meeting, the conflicting passions
of which, while Bernhardi keeps cool,
is wonderfully enacted by a clever
group of actors.
Abraham Sofaer is superb in the
title-role, and he is well supported by
a competent company thoroughly
versed in character impersonation.
1936
HxraAur Paon
THE SPHERE,
346, Strand, W.C.2.
THE ORIGIN OF THE TROUBLE: Schnitzler’s power¬
ful play, Professor Bernburdi, at- the Pheenix
Theatre, turns on this refusal of the docton
(Abraham Sofaer) to allow the priest (Bernard
Mereffield) access to a dying patient