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