ST. JAMES THEATRE
"Spring Parade,” set mainly in the good oid Vienna of waltzes and beergardens, yesterday entered the second week of a most successful season at the St. James Theatre. The leading lady is Deanna Durbin—a little more mature, a little more given to serious romance, but as charming as ever—and her leading man is Robert Cummings. Falling to sleep in what seems to be a haystack—it is really a miller's cart loaded with hay—the little peasant girl, Ilonka Tolnay (Deanna), wakes to find herself in Vienna, far from her home. Living with her miller till suitable transport back can be found, Ilonka is enraptured by the beauty and the strangeness of the big city. Women there have beaux, as she soon learns, and it is not long before she finds one for herself. He is Harry -Martin (Robert Cummings), a young soldier, conscripted into the army, who would sooner write music than drill. He does not seem to answer one of the specifications of Ilonka’s fortune—she has been told her lover will be an artist—but when she hears that he composes music she knows at once that this is the man.
Life is nor quite so simple as that, however, ami Ilonka passes through many enthralling adventures before she finds romantic happiness.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 80, 28 December 1940, Page 12
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214ST. JAMES THEATRE Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 80, 28 December 1940, Page 12
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