"Rather than attempting critically to assess the individual merits of your ensemble, let me say this: I have known the play from its first night at the Reinhardt Buehne [Gemeint ist das Theater in der Josefstadt unter seinem Direktor Max Reinhardt.] in Vienna about thirteen years ago. I was then wielding the "big stick" of the theatrical reviewer of a widely read paper. [...] when I first heard of your brave venture to present a full length play in Sydney, I confess that I was a little apprehensive - of the public reaction and of - well, of the presentation. Being what we are and given the perpetual comparison, I had my own private misgivings. Now I am glad, very much so, to offer you my humble apologies: You have achieved the uphill success of having made us completely oblivious of whatever merits past performances of this play might have had. You have given us instead not just a Sydney variety of the Vienna performance (anyone with some "home-made" theatrical routine could have done that) - but an admirable full-blooded creation of your own. This is the merit of your venture: to have shown clearly to our little community that the tradition of the European theatre can be and ought to be alive in this country, despite occasional voices to the contrary, not because we wish to segregate in islands of frustrated outsiders, but by the maintaining of a treasured cultural heritage, by cultivating a loving memory of a few highlights of happier days." (A Letter to Das Kleine Wiener Theater. In: The New Citizen 15.12. 1948, 8)