The first performance in Canada of “The Deputy” continued here today after a premiere which took place without incident despite widespread advance rumors of demonstrations.
The rumors that neo-Nazi groups would picket the theater or otherwise demonstrate opposition to the Rolf Hochhut play and other rumors that militant Jewish groups would stage counter-demonstrations led to the posting of 20 policemen at the theater for the premiere Sunday. The police reported that there were some 60 cars-parked in the area whose occupants apparently were waiting for neo Nazis to “start trouble.”
Toronto reviewers differed in their reaction to the play which charges that the late Pope Pius XII failed to speak out against the Nazi slaughter of 6,000,000 European Jewish men, women and children.
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