Efforts by anti-Semitic members of the Nationalist Socialist party to force the closing of the Negro comedy, “Shadows over Harlem,” by Ossip Dymow, Jewish playwright of New York, continued today.
Jewish actors in the comedy were followed in the streets and abused by the Hitlerites, whose rancour was increased by the refusal of Minister of Education Bazile, himself a Socialist-Nationalist, to order the play closed.
Previously Diet Deputy Mergenthaler had voiced the Hitler party appeal to the Minister of Education. When Bazile declined the request, his party members rose to a new pitch of excitement. Jews are afraid to attend the theatre. The general anxiety of the Jewish population grows hourly.
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