Die Dollarprinzessin
Leo Fall’s German operetta uses a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Fritz Grünbaum, adapted from a comedy by Emerich von Gatti and Thilo Friedrich Wilhelm von Trotha.
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Leo Fall’s German operetta uses a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Fritz Grünbaum, adapted from a comedy by Emerich von Gatti and Thilo Friedrich Wilhelm von Trotha.
A jealous wife seeks divorce after her husband and a young actress are accidentally locked together overnight on a train. After complications in court, husband and wife reunite, while the judge finds romance with the actress.
During Carnival in Paris, married Count René meets Madame de Pompadour and is arrested. She secures his release on condition that he become her bodyguard and that his friend Josef write a birthday play. René’s wife arrives searching for him while Louis XV tries to catch Pompadour with her lover; Pompadour evades discovery by presenting the wife as her sister.
English version: A young American oil tycoon, when recruiting domestic staff, takes on a succession of impoverished members of the European aristocracy. But the servants he selects are all very well connected. "Tho' we came here in the steerage, all are members of the peerage." His sister, who has money, later follows the course of true love and takes a job in another household pretending to be impoverished. American version: Three plot lines take place concurrently: First, an American girl, the daughter of the President of the Coal Trust (the dollar princess), falls in love with a young Englishman and tries to win his heart. Meanwhile, the millionaire father has an affair with a supposed Countess, who turns out to be a lion tamer. Also, his niece, Daisy, marries a young Marquis, but she refuses to be anything but his friend.
Fall and Léon's operetta premiered in Mannheim in 1907. An English adaptation, The Merry Peasant, opened at London's Strand Theatre in 1909 and ran for 69 performances.
Achmed Bey hopes to reform Turkish society but does not want to embarrass his politician father, so he publishes his ideas in French under the pseudonym André Léry. His book becomes popular among Turkish women. When his marriage to Kondja Gül is arranged, she confesses on their wedding night that she cannot love him because she has fallen for André Léry, not knowing the author is Achmed.
Leo Fall’s German operetta uses a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Fritz Grünbaum, adapted from a comedy by Emerich von Gatti and Thilo Friedrich Wilhelm von Trotha.
A jealous wife seeks divorce after her husband and a young actress are accidentally locked together overnight on a train. After complications in court, husband and wife reunite, while the judge finds romance with the actress.
During Carnival in Paris, married Count René meets Madame de Pompadour and is arrested. She secures his release on condition that he become her bodyguard and that his friend Josef write a birthday play. René’s wife arrives searching for him while Louis XV tries to catch Pompadour with her lover; Pompadour evades discovery by presenting the wife as her sister.
English version: A young American oil tycoon, when recruiting domestic staff, takes on a succession of impoverished members of the European aristocracy. But the servants he selects are all very well connected. "Tho' we came here in the steerage, all are members of the peerage." His sister, who has money, later follows the course of true love and takes a job in another household pretending to be impoverished. American version: Three plot lines take place concurrently: First, an American girl, the daughter of the President of the Coal Trust (the dollar princess), falls in love with a young Englishman and tries to win his heart. Meanwhile, the millionaire father has an affair with a supposed Countess, who turns out to be a lion tamer. Also, his niece, Daisy, marries a young Marquis, but she refuses to be anything but his friend.
Fall and Léon's operetta premiered in Mannheim in 1907. An English adaptation, The Merry Peasant, opened at London's Strand Theatre in 1909 and ran for 69 performances.
Achmed Bey hopes to reform Turkish society but does not want to embarrass his politician father, so he publishes his ideas in French under the pseudonym André Léry. His book becomes popular among Turkish women. When his marriage to Kondja Gül is arranged, she confesses on their wedding night that she cannot love him because she has fallen for André Léry, not knowing the author is Achmed.