GCP's production of

Tovarich

March 24, 1942

Written by Jacques Deval
Director Dr. Sigismund de R. Diettrich

     "The plot centers about two quixotic Russian émigrés, a former general of Cossack cavalry, Mikail, and his wife, the former grand duchess, Tatiana, who are making a gay go of rags and starvation in a Parisian garret in spite of the fact that in the bank of France is the sum of 4,000,000,000 francs entrusted to them by the late Czar. This fortune may not be touched for it is a self designated trust to be used only for Russia.
     In order to keep the wolf from the door these two take employment as butler and maid in a bourgeois banker's family, their identities a secret until a 'soviet commissar turns up among the guests and recognizes them. This particular person is extremely odious to Mikail and Tatiana, but with typical Russian reasoning and fine flourishes the funds are won for Russia by this commissar in order to save the Baku oil fields from scheming foreigners among whom are their employers." ----Gainesville Daily Sun, March 22, 1942