Arlette (musical)

Produced by George Grossmith Jr. and Edward Laurillard it was adapted from the French with music by Jane Vieu, Guy Le Feuvre and Ivor Novello.

[4] The play's opening night coincided with the worst of the German air raids on London during World War I, but the cast decided to continue with evening performances.

[3] In 1936 the show was revised and retitled How Do, Princess?, with six new songs by Novello, but the subsequent tour of the British provinces was a financial disaster and quickly closed.

Soon afterwards, however, Arlette, the maid of honour to the country's Queen dowager, wanders by chance into the prince's private apartments where he is contemplating his financial difficulties.

His cousin, the Duke of Aristo, takes the throne and marries Cherry: the kingdom's finances are restored, the revolutionaries are pleased, and Arlette and Paul live in peace and happiness.

[11] The critic for the Lloyds Weekly News wrote of the production: The magnificence of the mounting of Arlette at the Shaftesbury will set old playgoers thinking for all that it is called an "operetta," it is molded on traditional lines, and possesses sparkling music.