 The play was a great success and ran through the entire year in the Théâtre du Gymnase, in Marseille.Damala starred in few memorable productions in the following years.He played the leading man (as "Jean Gaussin") in the comedy "Sapho", Alphonse Daudet's stage adaptation of his own novel, "Sapho, mœurs parisiennes", again with Hading as his partner.