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Postgraduate Work. In Frankfurt, West Germany, Police Chief Willi Klapproth, who spent three months last year studying U.S. police methods at State Department expense, was charged with bribery, perjury and accepting kickbacks...
...Sachs '04 as Phillip Klapproth made the most of a funny part, entering into the spirit of every situation. G. W. D. H. Gribble '05 played the ranting actor well. The love scene in which C. Ehlermann, Jr., '05, as Alfred Klapproth, reads his proposal to Friederika, was one of the best situations in the play. W. H. Chase '04 as Josephine Kruger, H. Henneberger '05, as Amelie Pfeiffer, and P. G. Henderson '05, as Ulrike Sposser, were distinctly feminine...
...Klapproth, an exuberant provincial, during a visit to Berlin desires to enjoy an adventure which in the telling will outclass the experiences of a rival sight-seer in his native town. He hits upon the idea of visiting a sanitarium for persons mentally unbalanced and promises to start a nephew of his in business if he will arrange for such an adventure. The nephew resolves upon the rash expedient of taking his uncle to the Pension Scholler, a private and eminently sane boarding house...
...boarders, however, all have pronounced hobbies. Klapproth, with the preconceived notion that he is visiting a sanitarium, naturally enough believes the residents in the pension to be mildly insane. There follow a series of uproariously funuy scenes between Klapproth and the "patients" Josephine Kruger, who is continually searching for material for a new novel: Fritz Bernhardy, an inveterate traveller: Eugen Rumpel, a young man with dramatic aspirations and a defect in his speech: Grober, an irascible old soldier: and Amalic Pfeiffer, who is constantly searching for a husband for her daughter...
...Finally Klapproth returns home glad to escape from the eccentricities of the Pension Scholler. His consternation may be imagined when on the following day, the various "patients" on one pretext or another come to visit him. Of course he thinks they have escaped, manages to lock them up in different rooms, and telegraphs to Scholler, the owner of the pension for help. At last the misunderstandings are cleared up to the satisfaction and amusement of all concerned...