51. “The Recall” (Le Sursis)

Funny play in three acts by A. Sylvane and J. Gascogne
Performance at the Residenz-Theater, Berlin

The French know how to mix a droll story with impossible but cheerful situations and create a mixture that makes an audience laugh after a boring, prosaic day's work, after a long dinner and a pleasant afternoon nap, without in any way stimulating the mind or getting excited by anything other than a mild sensory thrill. And the management of the Residenz Theater understands this method of success with the audience, translated into Berlinese. With "Einberufung", it has given a sample of this. In the first act, you laugh at some good jokes; in the following two acts, you laugh at the audacity of the authors to serve up such trivialities. But one laughs. The "Convocation" will probably see a hundred or more performances.