Scene 20 (p. 215)
(A suburban street.)
An old woman. A lieutenant. The crowd.
Scene 21 (p. 215)
(A suburban apartment.)
The Liebal family: father, mother, boy. Frau Sikora, a neighbour.
Scene 22 (p. 216)
(Headquarters garrison. A street.)
A captain from the War Press Bureau. A journalist. A corpulent, elderly gentleman with side-whiskers and pince-nez, a marshal’s baton in each hand.
Scene 23 (p. 218)
(City centre.)
A disabled veteran with a blind soldier. A hack from the gutter press. A sales rep.
Scene 24 (p. 218)
(During a performance in a theatre in the suburbs.)
Hansi Niese. Her partner. The audience.
Scene 25 (p. 219)
(The restaurant Wolf in Gersthof.)
Wolf in Gersthof. The inspector general of the Red Cross, Archduke Franz Salvator, his chamberlain, two aristocrats, and little Putzi. A customer. Folksingers.
Scene 26 (p. 220)
The Subscriber and the Patriot.
Scene 27 (p. 221)
(Position near the Uzsock Pass.)
An Austrian general. A Prussian second-lieutenant.
Scene 28 (p. 222)
(Military headquarters. Cinema.)
The commander in chief of the army, Archduke Friedrich. King Ferdinand of Bulgaria. A voice calling “Ka-boom!”
Scene 29 (p. 222)
The Optimist and the Grumbler.
Scene 30 (p. 227)
(Somewhere on the shores of the Adriatic. In the hangar of a seaplane squadron.)
Alice Schalek. The sub-lieutenant of a frigate.
Scene 31 (p. 228)
(In a U-boat that has just surfaced.)
A mate. U-boat officer. Members of the War Press Bureau. Alice Schalek.
Scene 32 (p. 229)
(A factory requisitioned under the emergency regulations of the War Powers Act.)
Military supervisor of the factory. Factory owner.
Scene 33 (p. 232)
(A room in Hofrat Schwarz-Gelber’s house.)
Hofrat and Hofrätin Schwarz-Gelber.
Act II Extras:
Galician refugees, black-marketeers, promenaders, beggars, regular officers, hospital commandants, those in reserved occupations, civilians who have “wangled it”, the wounded, soldiers, provincial actors, audience, visitors to Semmering, army suppliers, officers, prostitutes, journalists, customers.
Act III
Scene 1 (p. 240)
(Vienna. At the corner where the Kärntnerstrasse meets the Ring and people take their evening stroll.)
Newspaper vendors. Two army profiteers. Four officers. A young girl. A girl. A woman. Two devotees of the Reichspost. Regular subscriber to the Neue Freie Presse. The oldest subscriber. A cripple. Poldi Fesch. His companion. Two disabled veterans. The singing of conscripts. Voice of a cabby.
Scene 2 (p. 242)
(In front of our artillery positions.)
Alice Schalek. The gunner.
Scene 3 (p. 243)
(On the Isonzo front. A command post.)
Lieutenant Fallota. Lieutenant Beinsteller.
Scene 4 (p. 247)
(In Jena.)
Two philosophy students.
Scene 5 (p. 248)
(Hermannstadt in Transylvania. In front of a closed German bookshop.)
A Prussian infantryman. A German bookseller.
Scene 6 (p. 249)
(In Vinzenz Chramosta’s grocery shop.)
Vincenz Chramosta. Customers. The inspector.
Scene 7 (p. 250)
(Two Commercial Counsellors leaving the Imperial Hotel.)
Commercial Counsellors. Disabled veteran. Cabby. Beggar woman.
Scene 8 (p. 251)
Old Biach.
Scene 9 (p. 252)
(War Archive.)
Captain. Dörmann. Hans Müller. Men of letters. Two orderlies.
Scene 10 (p. 258)
(A chemical laboratory in Berlin.)
Privy Councillor Professor Delbrück.
Scene 11 (p. 258)
(Meeting of the Cheruscan Society in Krems.)
Pogatschnigg. Frau Pogatschnigg. Winfried Hromatka. Kasmader. Übelhör. Holomatsch.
Scene 12 (p. 261)
(At a dance in Hasenpoth in Lithuania.)
Baltic gentleman and Baltic lady.
Scene 13 (p. 261)
(Appeal hearing in the district court of Heilbronn)
Public prosecutor. The lady accused. Two persons in the courtroom.
Scene 14 (p. 262)
The Optimist and the Grumbler.
Scene 15 (p. 265)
(A Protestant church.)
Church superintendent Falke.
Scene 16 (p. 265)
(Another Protestant church.)
Consistory Councillor Rabe.
Scene 17 (p. 266)
(Another Protestant church.)
Pastor Geier.
Scene 18 (p. 267)
(Pilgrimage church.)
Sexton. A visitor.
Scene 19 (p. 268)
(Constantinople. A mosque.)
Two young Berliners. An imam. A lady.
Scene 20 (p. 270)
(Editorial office in Berlin.)
Alfred Kerr.
Scene 21 (p. 271)
(Consultation room in Berlin.)
Professor Molenaar. A patient.
Scene 22 (p. 271)
(Office at a command post.)
General Staff officer on the telephone. Two old generals. Journalist.
Scene 23 (p. 272)
(Headquarters.)
Archduke Friedrich. The two Buquoys. Adjutant.
Scene 24 (p. 273)
Two devotees of the Reichspost.
Scene 25 (p. 277)
(In front of the War Ministry.)
Two young men.
Scene 26 (p. 277)
(Ringstrasse.)
Fifty draft dodgers.
Scene 27 (p. 277)
(In front of the War Ministry.)
Another two young men.
Scene 28 (p. 278)
(Ministry of Defence.)
Captain. A civilian.
Scene 29 (p. 279)
(Innsbruck. A restaurant.)
Colonel. Colonel’s wife.
Scene 30 (p. 279)
(Market square in Grodno, Belarus.)
Town hall official. Curtseying girls. Dignitaries. German officials. German officers.
Scene 31 (p. 279)
(Censorship at a German front unit.)
Officer in charge of censorship. Captain. Airman. Senior NCO. Sergeant. Territorial reserve. Gun crew. Sixteen drivers. Lieutenant. Reconnaissance airman. Second-lieutenant. Military bandsman. Lance-corporal. Soldier. Captain in the medical corps. Gunner. Junior company commander. Acting officer. Sapper. Volunteer. Major-general.