GERMANY ~Dinner for One or Der 90. Geburtstag sketch~

... Nice postcard showing a famous cult classic in Germany... a short British cabaret sketch from the 1920s.... every year at New Year’s Eve their public television broadcasts the classic, black-and-white English-language version... strangely enough almost unknown in the English-speaking world, including Britain, its birthplace... not known in Belgium either... had to look it up on You Tube... maybe any of my blog readers know or seen it🤔??... with great matching stamp and beautiful postmark👍 issued 55 years after the first telecast of the now classic sketch... Thanks a lot Dustin!! ✿◕ ‿ ◕✿

Dinner for One, also known as The 90th Birthday, is a two-hander comedy sketch written by British author Lauri Wylie for the theatre. It is a 18-minute single-take black-and-white recording featuring British comedians Freddie Frinton and May Warden.

The sketch presents the 90th birthday of elderly upper-class Englishwoman Miss Sophie, who hosts a dinner every year for her close friends Mr. Pommeroy, Mr. Winterbottom, Sir Toby and Admiral von Schneider to celebrate the occasion. The problem is that given Miss Sophie's considerable age, she has outlived all of her friends, and so butler James makes his way around the table, impersonating each of the guests in turn. Unfortunately for him, this means participating in each toast of the four-course dinner...


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German Television Legends
(Issued 11-10-2018)