[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)