Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end.
It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.
Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.
To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.
At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany.
