SOURCE: Cunningham, Valentine. “Cabaret.” New Statesman 90, no. 2318 (22 August 1975): 229-30.

In the following review, Cunningham explores the emphasis on the character of Sally Bowles, which is reflected in the edition of Isherwood's stories entitled The Berlin of Sally Bowles.

‘I wonder,’ she was fond of remarking, ‘what they'd say if they knew that we two old tramps were going to be the most marvellous novelist and the greatest actress in the world.’

Thus Sally Bowles to Chris Isherwood, in one of their frequent conversations about ‘wealth, fame, huge contracts for Sally, record-breaking sales for the novels I should one day write’. Sally's confidence was, of course, right: and though Frl. Schroeder may sneer in Isherwood's new Introduction (‘The Berlin of Sally Bowles? Of Sally Bowles? Is she out of her mind? Just who does she think she is?’) the world of Mr Norris [Mr. Norris Changes Trains] and Goodbye...