[1] Set in Tyrol, Austria, the story takes place at an inn, 'The White Hen', owned by Hensie Blinder.
The musical begins after Blinder returns from a trip to Vienna in which he engaged a matrimonial agency to help him find a wife.
Upon his return to the inn, several women arrive in response to the advertisement placed by the agency and a comedy of errors ensues; including Blinder mistakenly believing he has committed the crime of bigamy.
The name was changed after the original production's male lead, Louis Mann, insisted that the work be renamed so as not to indicate that his character was not the star of the show.
[4] The production starred Louis Mann as Hensie Blinder, Louise Gunning as Pepi Gloeckner, Lotta Faust as Lisa Sommer, Ralph C. Herz as Eric Weiss, Robert Michaelis as Paul Blancke, Leona Stephens as Lottchen Spring, Carrie E. Perkins as Sonia Matemoff, and Otis Sheridan as Lieutenant Wilhelm Klopstock among others.