 He returned to the National Theatre of Bucharest where the repertory was set by the Propaganda Department of the Romanian Communist Party.His comeback was in 1953's Sică Alexandrescu's "O scrisoare pierdută" ("A Lost Letter"), in which he initially portrayed Dandanache and then Brânzovenescu.Radu Beligan praised the play and described Birlic as ""[a] genius of comedy, of the Romanian humor"".