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A GERMAN DISTRICT
EAGLEYEZING
Astounding proof of the puerile weakness of the statement that " 'The Eagle's . Eye' might prove too great a contrast to the thoughts and opinions ot German patrons" comes from the most thickly populated German and Austrian district in the United States.
This district centers at East 74th street and Second avenue, New York City. Mr. Schawger, proprietor of the Bohemian Annex, 334 East 74th street, booked "The Eagle's Eye."
The night the first episode, "The Hidden Death," was shown, the lobby of the Bohemian Annex was packed to overflowing before the box-office opened. The crowd struggling for positions in the long line was made up almost entirely of registered "enemy aliens," unnaturalized Germans and Austrians, still subjects of their Kaiser and Emperor. Within fifteen minutes after the sale of tickets was started, the Bohemian Annex was packed. And the lobby was still jammed with a throng of late comers.
Surprised by the unexpected number of aliens clamoring for admission, the management requested the co-operation of the police to maintain order. Reserves were sent to the theatre. Within the theatre there was doubt and apprehension. Would these former disciples of Kultur and Hohenzollernism remain passive at the sight of the nobility of their Fatherland, the honored and titled emissaries of their ruler revealed in their true characters as arch plotters and con spirators, possessed of fiendish ingenuity? Would they sit quietly, while before them, on the screen, was enacted, by these leaders from their native lands, the crimes against American lives and American property of which they stand convicted by the facts furnished by Chief Flynn for the production of "The Eagle's Eye."
Or, would they, in their first disbelief of the truth of these pictured facts, cast discretion and self control to the winds, and demand that the picture be
stopped.
"The thoughts and opinions of German patrons" was about to be put to the crucial test. It was to be submitted to undeniable evidence of the startling, diabolical depravity of the men who had commanded their reverence and respect as leaders in intelligence, tact, fairness and humane practices. What would be the result?
The first episode was started. The audience remained silent when the pictures of Chief Flynn and the Capitol appeared on the screen. Then came a noticeable stir throughout the house, when the characters of Ambassador von Bernstorff, revered of German diplomats, and his intimate associates, Captains von Papen and Boy-Ed, and Dr. Albert, were shown. The management watched closely for the first indication of a storm of protest as von Bernstorff and his colleagues were shown plotting their murderous parts in the sinking of the Lusitania. But a strange, almost unnatural quiet succeeded the first general stirring by hundreds of forms.
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