NAZI NUISANCE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 144, 16 December 1930, Page 11

NAZI NUISANCE

UNOFFICIAL CENSORS

STUNK-BOMBS IN THEATRES

TIffiROEISING AUDIENCE

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. BEKLIN, 14th December. Emboldened by their success in secrrring the withdrawal of the American fi/hu, "All Quiet on the Western I'H-on.t" throughout Germany, the Nazis a,to attempting to establish an unofficial film, censorship. . Four hundred attended the first night of the revue, "Love Me," at Nurcnihurg. They remained quiet, while girls dressed in national costumes repre- : senting various foreign nations, appeared on the stage, but as soon as "Miss Germany" appeared clad in a plain frock intended to indicate Ger--1 m'any's distressed state, the Nazis caused an uproar. They hurled stink-bombs and rotten eggs toward the stage, and as a climax they released among the audience a number of white mice. The audience became panic-stricken, women shrieking and jumping up on chairs. The police were called in, and cleared the theatre, using their batons on the Nazis.

Throwing stink bombs and cat-call-ing, Nazi spectators broke up the production of: the film, "All Quiet" in Berlin a week ago. ITree fights occurred all over the theatre. Attendants trying to pacify the audience wore shouted down with cries of "Wake up, Germany! Down with the Jews I Ex-soldiers shouted that the film was an insult to German, soldiers. The police cleared the theatre with their truncheons.