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[Starring] Beatrix Lehmann, Esme Percy, Ernestine Costa and Bill Owen
A Berlin tragi-comedy by Gerhart Hauptmann

The action takes place in a Berlin tenement block, formerly a cavalry barracks, at the turn of the century: in the attic where Hassenreuter has his theatrical storeroom and drama school, and in Frau John 's flat.
(The recorded broadcast of June 16)

DURING THE INTERVAL (9.25-9.36 app.):
Richard Strauss
Love Scene (Feuersnot) played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, Bt. (on a gramophone record)

Contributors

Author:
Gerhart Hauptmann
Translated and adapted for radio by:
Charlotte Lloyd
Translated and adapted for radio by:
A. L. Lloyd
Producer:
H. B. Fortuin
Frau John:
Beatrix Lehmann
Pauline Piperkarcka, a servant girl:
Ernestine Costa
Bruno Mechelke, Frau John's brother:
Bill Owen
Walburga Hassenreuter:
Beryl Calder
Harro Hassenreuter, a former theatrical director:
Esmé Percy
Nathaniel Jettel, a court actor:
Arthur Young
Alice Rutterbusch, an actress:
Marjorie Westbury
Erich Spitta, a student of theology:
William Eedle
Herr John, a foreman bricklayer:
George Merritt
Selma Knobbe:
Denise Bryer
Frau Hassenreuter:
Vivienne Chatterton
Hassenreuter's drama students:
Kaferstein: Haydn Jones
Hassenreuter's drama students:
Dr Kegel: Simon Lack
Emil Quarquaro the caretaker:
Eric Anderson
Pastor Spitta:
James Thomason
Frau Kielbacke:
Joan Sanderson
Frau Sidonie Knobbe:
Gladys Spencer
Constable Schiercke:
John Graham

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