“That was no mere applause, that was a demonstration for Max Reinhardt.” This was the opinion unanimously expressed by all who attended the performance of Goldoni’s “Servant of Two Masters” under the direction of Max Reinhardt in the Stads-schouwbury in Amsterdam when, while the curtain was falling the audience rose and cheered the great artist. When two big wreaths of laurel were handed to Reinhardt it was regarded not only as a token of gratefulness to the artist but as sympathy for a Jew who is no longer able to direct any play in Germany.
The newspapers printed columns of enthusiastic criticism. Space was devoted to the interviews Reinhardt gave to the press at two special receptions.
When the question arose whether Reinhardt believed in the theory of one race being supreme to another as far as the theatre is concerned, Reinhardt smilingly shrugged his shoulders and said: “I don’t care about races. It is the artistic temperament and performance that matters. Under may direction I have had an opportunity to judge actors of several nationalities and races. I cannot say that I found that any race as such is #preme to another one.”
Reinhardt said he found a good reception everywhere for his artistic work.
“How sympathetically the American public reacts,” Reinhardt said. “Here you have the mutual understanding between public and actors which is so essetial for the actor to reach perfection. The man in the audience-and so I found it in America-must be soem sort of an artist himself.” Renihardt defended American cinema which, he said, is much better than its repulation.
Never before has an artist found such a reception in Holland as Max Reinhardt, Goldoni’s comedy is played in German, a fact which did no harm to its financial success. The theatres were sold out wherever he came in Holland although his first performance in Amsterdam coincided with the performance of Bruno Frank’s comedy “Nina” through the troupe of the famous German stage manager, Professor Leopold Jessner. A week of German art almost monopolized the stage in Amsterdam.
HIGH SCHOOL ASSEMBLY
The Jewish Culture Council will hold an assembly of members of more than twenty-five Jewish interest clubs of the public high schools at the leventritt Hall of the Temple Emanuel, 1 East 65th Street, this afternoon to discuss an extensive program of Jewish educational activity among high school students.
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