by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Lessons in Love is the streamlined English-language title for this musical farce. It's another story of romantic misunderstandings and misinterpretations, replete with disguise scenes and indignant renunciations. During the course of the story, hero Alois Weinberl (Paul Horbiger) finds it expedient to assume two false identities. That's nothing compared to heroine Sophie Bruninger (Luise Ulrich), who pretends to be three different people. There's nothing witty or subtle in the proceedings, but apparently that's how German audiences of the 1930s liked it.
