Prisoner of Zenda

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medical profession since 1858 bring you two well-known Hollywood stars, the distinguished actor and film producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and lovely Virginia Bruce. You will hear Mr. Fairbanks and Miss Bruce in the romantic drama The Prisoner of Zanda on to life Academy Awards. If you were to visit this delightful kingdom you would take

the Orient Express, Paris, Vienna, Strelsau, Bucharest and Constantinople. If you were going to the coronation you'd get out of the capital Strelsau if you were Rudolph Rassendol of the famous English family of Rassendol and were bent on having a holiday in this picture book kingdom you'd get off in the province of Zenda. You read the sign

which said, province of Zenda, royal hunting and fishing preserve trespassing forbidden by order of his Majesty the King. Being Rudolph Rassendol, you'd pick the choicest waters, fish to your huts content and then lie on a grassy bank and fall asleep. You'd hardly no-or-care that two of the King's henchmen were bending over you in astonishment and alarm.

Hmm, remarkable resemblance. Shave him and he'd be the King. It is incredible. He's awake. So, may I ask your name? Hey, you started this gentleman. Suppose you give me the lead in the matter of name.

This is Colonel Zapped, and I am called foot from Tarlanheim. You are both in the service of his Majesty the King. Well, I am Rudolph Rassendell, traveling from England. And not so long ago in the service of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.