Word: moldavia
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...Command Performance celebrates one of those witty romances which occur constantly even at this late era in Moldavia, a non-existent country. An actor rescues a lady, assailed by ruffians in the street. One of the ruffians is the decadent Prince of Moldavia; the actor is arrested and haled before the queen...
...prime minister of Moldavia is negotiating a treaty with the fat King of Wallachia; to contract the alliance is essential, but to do so it is also essential that the Prince of Moldavia marry the proud Princess of Wallachia. The true prince is unwilling to bother with preliminaries; hence the actor is offered his choice between a life-career in the salt mines and a chance to woo by proxy the foreign princess and bring her back for the real prince to wed. He chooses the latter and naturally falls in love with the lady he is supposed to deceive...
...further around the Southeastern shores of the Mediterranean. Italy, intent on the Trentino and Trieste in 1919, received little in addition to disappointing Tripoli except the control of Fuime on the Adriatic. Furthermore the appearance of Roumania and Jugo-Slavia as something more than the petty Balkan princedoms of Moldavia--Wallachia and Serbia gave her rivals more serious in many ways than Austria-Hungary had been. So the Peace of Versailles brought no peace to the Near East. Italy's interests traditionally demand her further expansion in the Adriatic and the Mediterranean; England and France with new interests and possessions...
...frequent interruptions of the citizen, goes through many stirring adventures, in all of which he comes to grief. He interferes in the love-match between Jasper and Luce, but is unsuccessful in this episode, as Jasper succeeds in winning Luce. Thwarted on all sides, he is sent to Moldavia, where the Sultan's daughter, Pompiona, is made to fall in love with him. He escapes from this love-match, however, by means of his guardian angel, whom he calls Susan; but he is finally slain by the orders of the citizen, in order to end the play...
...Breed '08A Barber, R. G. Partridge '08Two Captives, L. R. Martineau '09G. W. Bricka '07A Sergeant, T. Eaton '08William Hammerton, apprentice, H. P. Forte '07George Greengoose, apprentice, H. P. Breed '08Luce, daughter of Venturewell, T. W. Knauth '07Mistress Merrythought, D. H. Howie '07Pompiona, daughter of the King of Moldavia, L. R. Martineau...