The first-night curtain went up half an hour late. Otherwise all was in perfect Broadway order: there was nothing to suggest that half the cast had barely set foot in the country, that none had slept in a bed for five nights.
As far back as February, Palestine's famed Hebrew-speaking Habimah players had announced a six-week visit to Broadway. The sets and costumes were shipped well ahead; but when the company set out six days before the opening, they found Lydda airport in Arab hands and had to be secretly air-ferried to Athens. From there, in dribs & drabs, and by divergent...
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