Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guardsman. As the curtain went down on the opening performance, great sighs of critical relief were heard. The shuffling parade of poor (with one notable exception?What Price Glory?) productions which has been passing in review this autumn had been halted a second time...
...their own way. At any rate he will follow his great successes Liliom, Fashions for Men and The Swan with The Red Mill, in which Belasco will star Lenore Ulric. The Theatre Guild will blend the brilliant abilities of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine into a production of The Guardsman. Gilbert Miller has acquired The Roman Feast and there is talk of reviving The Phantom Rival. Explorers abroad report that Molnar's latest is The Glass Shoe, to be produced presently in Budapest...
...plot of the play is: "The beautiful young wife of an old, countrified Prince receives a copy of a rather gallant book of love with a letter from the Empress Catherine, announcing she intends to pay an unceremonious visit. A handsome young guardsman arrives as the Empress's vanguard and immediately begins to flirt with the girl Princess, whose imagination is stirred by the golden book. The husband intervenes, and a grotesque duel is cut short by the appearance of the Empress with one lady-in-waiting. The husband finds the latter's middle-aged charms so much...
...last act, while the Empress is resting after a hearty lunch, the young lady applies the maxims of the golden book well enough to win back her admirer. The empress, at first piqued by the guardsman's disloyalty, finally relents and pairs off the couples anew with a truly autocratic disregard for marriage laws...
...Guardsman, by Franz Molnar...