At a recent performance in Vienna of Mr. Bernard Shaw's comedy ''Heroes," at the Schoen-gunn Castle Theatre, Bulgarian students, regarding some of the words and scenes in the piece as an attack on their national honour, demonstrated against the production in a stormy manner.
The stage manager, hearing of the presence and intentions of the Bulgarians, attempted to appease them by a short address before the beginning of the comedy, giving them the assurance that neither the theatre management nor the author intended giving offence.
Order was not disturbed till the last scene in the first act, when the Bulgarians in. the galley raised passionate shouts of "Shame,"
are Austria's allies, we won't suffer "Scandal," Don't continue, we that." Whistling and shouts of protest interrupted the play for several minutes, and the public were harangued by the Bulgarians in the pit and gallery. Finally some of the disturbers were compelled to leave the house.
In the second act a remark about a certain Bulgarian of 90 years who had never washed himself was the signed for further stormy protests,
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