This has interesting origins from musical and non-musical plays. Bumerli manages to get Nadina alone, and confesses that it is his love for her that has drawn him back. Just in time, as a squad of bumbling Bulgarian soldiers, led by Captain Massakroff, arrive in pursuit.

Serbia and Bulgaria are at war, and the wife and daughter of the Bulgarian Colonel Popoff are missing their menfolk – the Colonel himself, and Major Alexius Spiridoff, who is engaged to the daughter, Nadina. takes refuge from his Bulgarian enemies in the house of a Bulgarian He recounts an incident in battle when a foolish Bulgarian officer lost control of his horse, thus leading an inadvertent cavalry charge against Serb guns that happened to have been supplied with the wrong ammunition and were thus overrun. Fortunately Bumerli has had time to hide behind the bed curtains, and Nadina assures them that she has not seen the intruder. He is a very ordinary person, nothing like the ideal hero Nadina has been worshipping. As the act curtain falls the wedding is definitely off.The scene returns to Nadina's bedroom, where she is writing a letter to Bumerli. fugitive!

When she picks it up and threatens him he laughs at her – he uses his ammunition pouch to carry chocolates and has no cartridges to load his weapon.In spite of herself Nadina is amused and charmed by this "Little Chocolate Soldier". Alexius is furious with Nadina, and she in her turn declares that she no longer loves him. a-flutter, almost compromises three ladies and then ruins the daughter's If she did not love him she would not be so jealous.Massakroff appears, with a challenge to a duel from Alexius to Bumerli. When he boasts of the incident of the charge on the guns he is embarrassed to realise that Nadina knows more about the matter than she should.

When Nelson Eddy is pretending to be a mad Russian, he actually acts! were destined for each other anyway. When the stage version of "The Chocolate Soldier" premiered, it was as a musical adaptation of He has come to return the clothes he used to escape, and manages to slip them to the ladies without suspicion being aroused. He cannot bear to see her married to another, and goes to leave.

Music by Oscar Straus. Heartbroken herself, Nadina asks for her photograph – but Bumerli never looked in the pocket of her father's housecoat – it is still there!The Colonel is wearing his favourite coat – there is some slapstick as the ladies try to stop him looking in his pocket by finding him matches and a handkerchief. They awaken him with their chatter, but he is exhausted and only wants to go back to sleep again.

Nadina gives him his letter, but he does not take it seriously. This was based on the non-musical play "Arms and the Man" by
Alexius is also terrified – he would never have challenged his rival if he had not been sure he was too much of a coward to accept. The Chocolate Soldier - Dec 12, 1921 Century Theatre (Revival) The Chocolate Soldier - Sep 21, 1931 Erlanger's Theatre (Revival) Shows That Opened That Season: 1929-1930 This new English version should They ransack the house for civilian clothes to enable him to escape – each, unknown to the others, slipping a photograph of herself into the pocket of his jacket – a favourite house coat of the Colonel's.Six months have passed, and the war is over.
Based on the play Lyric Theatre, New York - 13 September, 1909 (296 perfs)When Lieutenant Bummerli, a Swiss mercenary in the Serbian army, Stevens's first name was billed with an accent aigu rather than an umlaut over the e. Perhaps this decision to change her name from German to French was taken because of the war (although Stevens could not have been identified with the Nazi side, as she was Jewish). The ladies are embarrassed in their turn when Popoff tells them of a Swiss soldier in the Serbian army that they met after the fighting was over – and who told them a very funny story of escaping from a battle by hiding in a house where he was sheltered by three ladies who all fell in love with him.The plot thickens as Bumerli himself returns to the scene.


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