AMAZING SCENES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 371, 30 September 1933, Page 5

AMAZING SCENES

West End Theatre DEMONSTRATION AGAINST GERMAN ACTOR Police Action Required London, Sept. 2*. Extraordinary scenes were witnessed at the "first night" of Gerhardt Hauptniaim's play, "Before Sunset," at the Shaftsbury Theatre when the famous German actor, Werner Krauss, made his first appearance in the West End of London. An outburst of hostility,; aceompanie4 by a flood of leaflets from the gallery, necessitated the lowering of the curtain several times. "Stink bombs" also helped to make the auditorium like a Bedlam. The demonstrators meanwhile shouted: "Down with Hitler! We won't let Krauss appear; we want British actors!" The demonstrations continued until the police were called in. and ejected the demonstrators, some of whom were carried struggling from Che gallery. Misses Joyce Bland and Peggy Ashcroft. who hud to bear the brunt of the earlier disorders, were later cordially applauded.