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From the first time Lemml heard Sholem Asch’s play The God of Vengeance, he believed in the power of the play. He gave up his life being a tailor in a small town to be stage manager for all productions of the play—its premiere in Berlin, its European tour, and its subsequent productions in America on the Yiddish stage and English translation on Broadway. The Broadway run, though, was abruptly ended when the cast and producer were arrested and brought to court with obscenity charges. Lemml had
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START: (With false heartiness) Asch: Lemml! My good man! Please come in.
Lemml: I don’t think I am your good man anymore, Mr. Asch.
Asch: Well, then, may I join you?
Lemml: Please yourself.
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END: Lemml: —You have washed your hands clean of this tailor from Balut! Who doesn’t stand up for the name on his title page? I am taking the manuscript in Yiddish wid me. (Geshray) Mr. Asch! Your play it changed my life—
Asch: Lemml: Listen, wait—
[Madje: Wait, Lemml —]
Lemml: I am going home.
Vogel, Paula, Indecent, Theatre Communications Group, 2017, p. 71-73.
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