The London Daily Express records the following characteristic fact from Germany:
Nazis stopped the showing in Munich of a film featuring Arthur Riscoe, the Yorkshire comedian.
The leading lady of the film, “A Girl from Vienna”—made at Elstree—is Magda Schneider, the German actress.
There are love scenes between her and Riscoe.
Hissing and booing broke out … because the Nazis in the audience mistook Riscoe for a Jew.
The Nazis lined up in the gangways and howled out “Leave the cinema, Germans!” and “It is scandalous that a Jew should flirt with a German girl.”
The show was abruptly stopped, the management were compelled to end the performance, and the audience had to leave.
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