HECKLERS’ TUMULT
CONCERT^ SCENES FLAGSTAD DERIDED MUSIC LOVERS IN FIGHT (10 a.m.) PHILADELPHIA, April 23. Stench bombs were tossed into Philadelphia's famous old Academy of Music to-night as hecklers greeted the concert appearance of Kirsten Flagstad the Norwegian soprano, with boos and scuffling of feet. The hecklers turned the programme into a tumult after the conclusion of her first number. Mme. Flagstad, who has been accused of having connived with the Nazis to return to Norway during the war, has denied she is pro-German. The booing and heckling continued to-night until after the fourth number by which time ushers and detectives had ejected a number of heckers. At one stage music lovers attacked a third-row heckler, and for a few minutes, there was a free-for-all fight at Mme. Flagstad’s feet. During Mme. Flagstad’s performance in New York on Sunday pickets paraded outside the Carnegie Flail carrying signs reading: “Don’t look now, Flagstad, but your swastika is showing.” .
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22313, 24 April 1947, Page 5
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