Scene 32 (p. 282)
(A quiet poet’s retreat in the Styrian Woods.)
Kernstock. Two admirers.
Scene 33 (p. 283)
(At a sector control post.)
Alice Schalek.
Scene 34 (p. 284)
(Berlin, Tiergarten.)
Exchange Professor. National-Liberal Reichstag deputy.
Scene 35 (p. 286)
(Lecture hall in Berlin.)
The poet. The audience.
Scene 36 (p. 287)
(Lecture hall in Vienna.)
The Grumbler. A member of the audience and his wife.
Scene 37 (p. 288)
The Subscriber to the Neue Freie Presse and the Patriot.
Scene 38 (p. 290)
(In a railway compartment.)
Two sales reps.
Scene 39 (p. 292)
The Optimist and the Grumbler.
Scene 40 (p. 293)
(The German spa Gross-Salze.)
Kommerzienrat Ottomar Wilhelm Wahnschaffe. Frau Kommerzienrat Auguste Wahnschaffe. Little Willy and Little Marie. An invisible choir, representing laughter from abroad. Two wounded soldiers. Two nursemaids.
Children: Hänschen and Trudchen. Hans Adalbert and Annemarie. August and Guste. Mieze. Klaus and Dolly. Walter and Marga. Little Paul and Little Pauline. Jochen and Suse. Elsbeth.
A mother. A gentleman. Two fathers. Two little sons.
Scene 41 (p. 306)
The Optimist and the Grumbler.
Scene 42 (p. 310)
(During the Battle of the Somme. Gateway to a park in front of a villa.)
The German Crown Prince. A company marching past.
Scene 43 (p. 310)
(War Ministry.)
Captain. A civilian.
Scene 44 (p. 311)
(Kastelruth, South Tyrol.)
Second-lieutenant Helwig. Another second-lieutenant. Waitress. Duty officer.
Scene 45 (p. 311)
(A Viennese nightspot.)
Rolf, the impromptu poet. Two officers. Frieda Morelli, chanteuse. A voice. Hungarian cattle dealer. Proprietor of the nightspot. Cloakroom staff and washroom attendant. Grain merchant. A regular. Drunken Red Cross official. His colleague. Army doctor. His colleague. Drunken customer.
Scene 46 (p. 316)
(Night. The Graben in Vienna.)
The Grumbler. A drunkard answering the call of nature.
Act III Extras:
Masked figures and lemurs, promenaders, wounded veterans, the blind, beggars, customers, literary figures, Cheruskans in Krems, dancers in Hasenpoth, law-court officials, persons in the courtroom, churchgoers, officers, restaurant customers, soldiers, audience at a lecture, barmaids, nightspot hostesses, men-about-town, gentlemen from the Red Cross, Polish legionaries, nightclub staff, the Nechwatal salon orchestra, the Miskolczy Jancsi gypsy band.
Act IV
Scene 1 (p. 138)
(Vienna. At the corner where the Kärntnerstrasse meets the Ring and people take their evening stroll.)
Newspaper vendors. Four officers. Countess. Her lady companion. Blind soldier in a wheelchair. An intellectual. His companion. Poldi Fesch. Baby Fanto. Black hotel porter. Singing conscripts. Berlin exporter. His companion. A passerby with hands raised. Another passerby. An officer’s wife. Her companion. Two walkers. Two devotees of the Reichspost. An oddball. His companion. Lenzer v. Lenzbruck. Frau Back v. Brünnerherz. Woman selling flowers. Two gentlemen. Storm. Fräulein Löwenstamm. Fräulein Körmendy. A fare. Cabby.
Scene 2 (p. 322)
The Optimist and the Grumbler.
Scene 3 (p. 323)
(A railway station near Vienna.)
A porter. Six Viennese. The Grumbler. The Austrian Face. Someone in the know.
Scene 4 (p. 325)
(Vienna, Kohlmarkt. In front of the window display of a picture gallery.)
Margosches. Wolffsohn.
Scene 5 (p. 326)
The poets: Strobl. Ertl.
Scene 6 (p. 326)
(Student drinking fraternity.)
An alumnus. The members. A recruit.
Scene 7 (p. 328)
(Medical convention in Berlin.)
Psychiatrist. Psychiatric patient. Professor Boas. Professor Zuntz. Professor Rosenfeld (Breslau). President of the Medical Board. Constable Büddicke.
Scene 8 (p. 333)
(Weimar. Gynaecological clinic.)
Professor Henkel. Professor Busse. Female patient. Assistant. Prince of Lippe. Nurse.
Scene 9 (p. 334)
(A German Reserve Division.)
A colonel.
Scene 10 (p. 334)
(The Isonzo front. Brigade headquarters.)
Alice Schalek. Chorus of officers.
Scene 11 (p. 338)
(Divisional headquarters.)
Commanding officer. Kaiserjägertod. Major.
Scene 12 (p. 339)
(Regiment on the retreat. In a village.)
Kaiserjägertod. Starving soldier. Colonel. Lieutenant Gerl.
Scene 13 (p. 339)
(Hospital near a divisional headquarters.)
Seriously wounded patient. Warden. Singing from nearby.
Scene 14 (p. 340)
(A German Reserve Division.)
A colonel.
Scene 15 (p. 340)
The Optimist and the Grumbler.
Scene 16 (p. 341)
(Goods station in Debrecen, Hungary.)
Sentry. Lieutenant Beinsteller. Second-lieutenant Sekira.
Scene 17 (p. 341)
(Vienna. Town Hall.)
Official. An applicant.
Scene 18 (p. 343)
(The Durchhalter family apartment.)
Father, mother, and children.
Scene 19 (p. 343)
The Subscriber to the Neue Freie Presse and the Patriot.
Scene 20 (p. 343)
(Sofia. A banquet of German and Bulgarian newspaper editors.)
Count Oberndorff, the German ambassador. German and Bulgarian editors. Kleinecke (Berlin). Steinecke (Hanover).
Scene 21 (p. 345)
(Foreign Ministry.)
Haymerle. Newspaper editor.
Scene 22 (p. 347)
(In the Wahnschaffes’ sitting room.)
Frau Pogatschnigg. Frau Wahnschaffe.
Scene 23 (p. 349)
Three fashionable German ladies.
Scene 24 (p. 350)
The Subscriber to the Neue Freie Presse and the Patriot.
Scene 25 (p. 351)
(Hindenburg and Ludendorff at lunch.)