Actor Not Allowed to Play the Kaiser
A court has granted the exKaiser’s application for an injunction to prevent an actor portraying him. in the play, “Rasputin,’ in Berlin. The theatre is appeal ing.
Former crowned heads of Europe, who took a leading part in the Great War, appear in the plaj/, which is by Alexis Tolstoy.
The ex-Kaiser. . the late Czar of Russia, the Czarina, and the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria are impersonated. There arc 30 scenes and 67 characters. Tt is a kind of dramatic history from the end. of the war io the outbreak of the Russian revolution.
The ex-Kaiser, the late Czar once, when the play was first produced this month , was greeted with faint hisses, but the sight of Trotsky haranguing the victorious revolutionaries roused a packed audience to enthusiasm. Warnings were given to the producers, on behalf of the exKaiser, that his inclusion in the cast was most objectionable, but no heed was paid to them..
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 224, 10 December 1927, Page 24 (Supplement)
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163Actor Not Allowed to Play the Kaiser Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 224, 10 December 1927, Page 24 (Supplement)
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