Show I i I I I I I i J I I I I I I I I I lAME AMERICAN RICAN PLAY fAilS TO SCORE Germans Find No Attraction in Production nv fly CARl cAm D. D T United Iress Staff Correspondent BERLIN Nov 5 5 G. Hisses sometimes mingled with applause tonight at the opening performance of the American production tion Jonny's Johnnys Johnny's Bosom Friend in the Kom- Kom ot The applause was for the I noted comedian Max Pallen berg long longan an Idol of ot the Berlin theatregoer theatregoers the hisses were for the play itself for its burlesque and slapstick comedy ap appeared appeared appeared ap- ap to offend the German sense of one of few American plays produced here Is from Crom the pen of Walter Valter D. D Ellis rendered into German by Julius Horst and Alexander Alexander Alexander Al Al- Engel It is Just the sort of farce the tired business man in inI I America likes He gets a laugh without without without with with- out too much effort But the German business man and the German frau are evidently built differently Many of ot the audience wore the you to me make-me-laugh look 1001 though despite the critical reception accorded the piece by a ashare share of ol the audience many did get set a heal ty laugh The press critics were merciless with their treatment of the show though they handled the beloved gently The play r revolves around a man who dU during his I wife's eri absence e ad dines with Wi an entrancing blonde comes Into possession pos pos pos-I session of a pearl necklace she e had borrowed ig and then i to square ar eh h himself himself him him- self at home gives It to his wife His j attempts to get money for tor another Involves him in numerous lu luI ludicrous ludicrous lu- lu situations wherein his bosom friend Johnny is employed ed to extricate him only to be made the goat In a number of embarrassing predicaments The fall theatrical season just openIng opening open- open Ing is offering several operettas operettas oper oper- ettas Die Braut des Lucullus Nix chen Die a new comedy comedy com com- ledY edy Die der del and several sev sev- several eral ernt older favorites The American I Girl Girl Die Weber PotI Pot as asch h und and Der V Vetter aus sela Die blau Mazur Das Soup Die Braut Draut des Lucillus bids fair fall to be bo as popular as the entrancing operetta Der Vetter nut mis which made its one ono hundred hun hun- dred fiftieth appearance this week |