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A LENGTHY OPERA.

PLAY WITH 47 SCENES

Herr Max Jleinhardt has had theatrical and artistic Berlin tiptoe with excitement over his latest and most, ambitious undertaking—a realistic production of the second part of Goethe’s Faust. Is the the first time that, the drama lias ever been presented on an elaborate scale on the Berlin stage, and only the sixth or seventh time that anyone lias attempted the herculean task of adecfuatoly presenting this Brobdignagian play. The performance began at 4 o’clock in the afternoon before an audience which had been cm gaged for weeks in a frantic competition for places. At 7 o’clock there was an hour’s interval, and dinner was served in the auditorium and in the foyer. Then the curtain went up again, am cl the performance did not encl until after 10 o’clock. Forty-seven different scenes in all were enacted bv the company, which numbers over 400 players.

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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3212, 6 May 1911, Page 4

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151

A LENGTHY OPERA. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3212, 6 May 1911, Page 4

A LENGTHY OPERA. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3212, 6 May 1911, Page 4

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