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sounded a note of hope, it stirred
feelings of pride and strength that
had lain dormant in Jewish hearts
for too long."
Victor Navasky, publisher
emeritus of the political weekly The
Nation, was a teenage usher who
collected contributions in buckets
after each performance.
"The buckets were always full','
he recalled. "The audiences were
extremely enthusiastic about the
play's message. For me, too, it was a
political awakening about the right
of the Jews to have their own state."
Flag was performed in
Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and
Baltimore and, reportedly, in a
displaced persons camp in Europe.
In some of the later performances,
young Sidney Lumet — later an
Academy Award-winning director
— replaced Brando. -
"This is the only romantic thing
left in the world:' Lumet told report-
ers before one show. "The home-
coming to Palestine, the conquest of
a new frontier, against all obstacles."
A planned performance at the
National Theater in Washington was
relocated to Baltimore's Maryland
Theater because Hecht would not
permit his works to be staged at
theaters, such as the National, that
barred blacks.
When Hecht discovered that the
Maryland Theater restricted blacks
to the balcony, the Bergson Group
and the NAACP teamed up to pro-
test: The NAACP threatened to pick-
et, and a Bergson official announced
he would bring two black friends to
sit with him at the play.
The management gave in, allow-
ing black patrons to sit wherever
they chose. NAACP leaders hailed
the "tradition-shattering victory"
and used it to facilitate the desegre-
gation of other Baltimore theaters.
A Flag is Born was a triumph. It
influenced American public opin-
ion by reaching large audiences
with an inspiring message about
the plight of Holocaust survivors
and the need for a Jewish state. It
raised enough funds to purchase a
ship — renamed the S.S. Ben Hecht
— that tried to bring 600 survivors
to Palestine, and that focused inter-
national attention on the refugees
when the ship was intercepted by
the British.
And Flag scored an important
victory over racial segregation in
Baltimore, demonstrating that, as
Hecht put it,"To fight injustice to
one group of human beings affords
protection to every other group."

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