Under the heading, “A Brilliant Record,” the Daily Telegraph today devoted a full column to a discussion of the Jews and the theatre, by the noted theatrical critic, Sydney Carroll. The writer declared that the article was prompted by the enormous success of Elizabeth Bergner, exiled German Jewish actress in London and by the banishment from Germany of so many first class Jewish actors and actresses.
From earliest times the Jews have been honorably identified in every country with the theatre, Carroll declared. “The greatest comedian in our chronicles was Edmund Kean said to be the son of Moses Kean and the nephew of Aaron Kean,” he said. There could be no mistaking his nationality.
“Were some English anti-Semitic Hitler to rise and order the expulsion of all Jewish actors and actresses in the English theatre, our stage would wilt away,” Carroll declared.
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