Complex sentence: On the way back to France he stopped in Berlin to act in the play "Cyrano de Bergerac"; it was there that Mr. Grassi, the director of Gaumont Germany, recruited him for a new occupation: filmmaking.
Split into simpler sentences: On the way back to France he stopped in Berlin to act in the play "Cyrano de Bergerac". It was there that Mr. Grassi, the director of Gaumont Germany, recruited him for a new occupation: filmmaking.