COMEDIAN AND THE POPE.
CURIOUS SCENE.
Danny Gcrtlkr, who styles himself "the King of the Bohemians," is one of those comedians who do not confine their profession exclusively to the music-hall stage. Among his peculiarities is an unbridled antipathy to the Roman Catholic Church. This misled him to a violent utterance, which resulted in his being condemned at Stuttgart to a month's imprisonment on the charge of libelling the Pope. When the time came for him to enter upon his term, he drove round Darmstadt in a four-in-hand, ornamented by a couple of smartly-liveried footmen, to the admiration of the crowds which had been drawn together by the welldisplayed advertisements in the papers. On his way he passed the Schloss, where the guard, evidently presuming that some princely person of great distinction was driving in this elegant equipage, turned out to salute. Having arrived at the gaol gates, the comedian delivered .a speech to the crowd, and then, scattering a handful of coin among his admirers, presented himself for punishment. Gurtler is known as an eccentric from one end of Germauv tg the pthe*.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14507, 22 October 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)
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