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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Mountebank. Andrew Lackaday was a bilingual clown in small-time French Vaudeville. He hoped for higher things and read books on military tactics on the side. The war found him a music hall success?thanks partly to the assistant he had rescued from starvation?a young French lady named Elodie whose husband had left her. Andrew liked Elodie (though, of course, their relationship was just one of those hygienic affairs), but she hated fresh air and left her lingerie around the flat too much, so he went to war, became a brigadier general and fell in love with Lady Auriel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 19, 1923 | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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