Daniel Voorhees Pike of Kokomo arrives at a Sorrento hotel to find his young ward about to marry into an impoverished English noble family for her money. Armed with common sense and Indiana humour, he takes on an earl, a grand-duke travelling incognito and an escaped Russian prisoner in this four-act comedy.
A hit comedy of the 1908 Broadway season, setting American plainness against Old World pretension. Download the free EPUB.