Weill's first collaboration as composer with Bertolt Brecht was on the singspiel (or “songspiel,” as he called it) Mahagonny (1927), which was a succes de scandale at the Baden—Baden (Germany) Festival in 1927.

vital energies; vital functions; vital actions

We pickled the remainder of the crop.

Guillemets, however, proved popular and remain the key method of indicating quotations in French, Arabic, Italian, Greek and many other languages.