Peter helpfully shows him a secret escape passage a bound and gagged Sonia reluctantly goes with them to take care of the lad.Īs prearranged, the kidnappers take Peter to Lady Augusta ( Constance Collier), who turns out to be Peter's former nurse. However, when Countess Sonia stumbles upon the scene and raises the alarm, Donovan has no choice. Donovan is too disgusted to want to abduct him, though Peter is thrilled at the idea of an adventure, thinking Donovan and Foster are Chicago gangsters, as were the protagonists in Damon Runyan's original story.
When the two men sneak back into the palace later that night, they are surprised to discover that King Peter II (Freddie Bartholomew) is just a boy. Foster quickly falls in love with a woman there named Sonia ( Gloria Stuart). When a drunken Foster wakes up and interrupts their meeting, Donovan calls him his aide.ĭonovan and Foster reconnoiter at a masquerade ball held at the king's palace, but King Peter II does not make an appearance. Thus, he is eager to accept when revolutionaries Valdis ( Lumsden Hare) and Ledgard ( Walter Kingsford) want to hire him to kidnap King Peter II, ruler of a country somewhere in the Balkans. Marine captain, is fed up with his latest job: keeping spoiled playboy George Foster (Michael Whalen) out of trouble from women and liquor in Paris.
No mention of the German immigrant/soldier having anything to do with Illinois in that piece, or in anything else I could find on the origins of the Christmas pickle.Colonel Michael Donovan (McLaglen), a soldier of fortune and former U.S. Supposedly, after returning home, the solider began the tradition of hanging a pickle on his family’s tree each Christmas Eve. The pickle gave him the mental and physical strength to live on! The guard took pity on him and gave a pickle to him.
He was a prisoner, and starving, he begged a guard for one last pickle before he died. The story features a fighter in the American Civil War who was born in Bavaria (an area of what is now Germany). says that in December of 2016, a YouGov survey found that 91 percent of Germans had never heard of the ' Weihnachtsgurke' (Christmas Pickle), let alone had one in their own homes.Īnother take on it, according to a box containing a Christmas pickle ornament, is that the tradition began when a German immigrant in Illinois fought as a Union Soldier in the Civil War. Except That Nearly No One In Germany Has Ever Heard Of It
0 kommentar(er)
