"Merry Go-Roud Donne Viennesi" "VIENNA" "... old ... gray ... historical ..." "The town of joy ... of gladness ... and of mirth   of sordid sorrow ... and of grief ..." "The town of Dukes ... of Princes ... and of the Counts ..." "Here ... from the time immemoral had lived the family of Hohnegg ... notable in the history of Austria for its statement and warriors ... its princely wealth ... its ancien escutcheon ..." "The last of the line ..." "Count Franz Maximilian Hohenegg ..." "Captain of Imperial and Royal Sixth Dragon ..." "His Majesty's Wing Adjutant and Chamberlan Norman Kerry" "Ti Amo!" "Mitzi" "His fiancèe Countess Gisella Von Steinbruck Doroty Wallace" "The Minister of War." "Countess Gisella's father." ""Heard you had a glorius time last nigth."" ""Hardly that, my dear ... missed you immensely ... really ..."" ""You missed me?" "When you come to see me tonigth, you shall tell me about it ..."" ""I was just about to telephone you ..." "impossible for me to come ..." "duty you know ..."" ""Of course service is service ..." "what are her colors?"" "The Count Hohenegg work meant an elaborate and pompous idleness while the Count went through its daily round of empty ritual" "Emperor Francis Joseph Anton Wawerka" ""Count Hohenegg, I am highly interested in your prospective ... marriage with Countess Gisella." "union.I t will be a splendid."" ""I dare say you young lovers have already decided when it shall be?"" ""Then I shall take an old Emperor's privilege ... it shall be during the coming month, on my esteemed cousin Attilda's byrthday."" "The minister of occupied all day with affair of state, enjoyed the quiet moment after dinner with his daughter." ""None whatever ..."" ""Father, what official duties are occupyng my fiance's time this evening?"" ""But he excused himself from calling upon me ..." "said he was on duty ..."" ""Oh, yes, yes, so he is ... now I recall it ... quite a weighty matter ... he has his hands full my dear ..."" ""You really love Count Hohnegg?"" ""He is the best looking in the Emperor's court ..." "and the appeals to me ..."" "The Prater ... the Coney Island of Vienna, with its giant Ferris Wheel ..." "its conglomeration of sounds and odors ... and laughter ..." "the chestnuts were in bloom ..." "The little organ grinder." "Schani Huber owned the big concession ..." "Schani, who cracked the whip ... and smiled ..." "Shani Huber ..." "George Siegmann" "Agnes Urban Mary Philbin." ""I never expeeted to find anything as pretty as you ... here."" ""You flatter like a lieutenant ... are you?"" ""Would you like me better if I were?"" ""I never say I liked you at all."" "Marianka Huber's wife." "Dale Fuller" ""Is that your father?"" ""No, but my father works for Huber too ... he runs the punch and Judy show."" "Sylvester Urban." "Cesare Gravina." ""What do you do for a living?"" ""Why ..." "I'm a ... neck-tie salesman."" ""What is your name?"" ""Franz ..." "Franz Meier ..."" ""But you may call me Franz ..."" "Mrs. Aurora Rossreiter owned the next concession ... a rival of Huber ... she hated him ..." "Bartholomew was her barker ..." "George Hackathorn." ""This is Boniface, the famous Orang-outang, direct from the jungles of Africa."" ""You go back to your concession, Huber!"" ""Shut your mouth, you dirty hunchback!"" "When the last merry-maker had gone ..." ""Please, may I go to my wife?" "She is sick."" ""So you played the lottery again!"" ""You know what I've always said ... if I win, you win."" "For days afterwards ... when Agnes played the organ ... she thought of Franz, the necktie salesman." ""Agnes quick!" "Your mother!" "She dying!"" ""Smile ..." "Smile ...!"" ""I'll wait, Silvester ..." "I'll wait ..."" ""Merciful Father!" "Let me see my dear ones ... once again ..."" ""And now, my friends, Count Hohenegg will do us the honor to mix the loving-cup!"" "And the merry-go-round goes round ... and round... and round ..." ""Take her along too ..." "she is a vagrant now ..." "because I'm through with her."" "Morning ... cold ..." "gray ... unfriendly ..." ""She's no vagrant ... she works for me from now on ... and her father too!"" ""Is this where you work?"" ""Oh, yes!" "This is the place ... I just got off."" "Do you know, I've been thinking a lot about you ... how have you been since I saw you!"" "" ... and my father got into a fight with Huber ... over me ..." "and now he is in jail."" ""I have a friend, a lady, who has influence with Commissionaire of Police ... shall we go to see her?"" ""She is a little friend of mine ... her father is in trouble ..." "you might use your influence with the Commissionaire."" "Verlobung in der Dof." "Gefellidaft." "Engagement in court circles." "Impegnato in ambiente di corte" ""Do you play?"" ""Nothing but the grind-organ ..." "I always wanted to, but we never had the money."" ""... and what kind of pieces do you like the best?"" ""A waltz ... sometimes in the evening a strain comes with the wind ... and I could sing and laugh ... and cry ..."" ""I didn't mean to make you sad ..." "we must be happy!" "Why, the whole world is just make ... believe ..." "and we are children, dreaming ...!" ""You talk funny for a necktie salesman ... you should have been a Prince."" ""... and you are the little Princess."" ""You are beatiful ..."" ""Have you ever loved anyone?"" ""Yes, of course ... my mother and my father."" ""Not that ..." "I mean the love of a woman for a man ..."" ""Yes ..." "Bartholomew ... the little hunchback whom you met!"" ""You frighten me!" "You are terrible!" "Oh, let me go!"" ""I didn't mean to offend you, but ... no one ever kissed me ... like that ..."" ""But you said ..." "Bartholomew ..."" ""Why, he's just a boy-friend ..." "who has been kind to me."" ""I will take you home ..."" "The Sylvester release came like a miracle of good fortune." "Verlobung in der hof." "Befellfehaft" "!" "It isn't first time I've been told lucky fellow."I look like this" ""You believe me don't you."" ""Of course ..." "I will blieve you and trust you alwais ..."" "" No!" "No!" "It can't be!" "He is my good friend ... a gentleman ..."" "" He looks enouh like you to be your twin brother."" ""I'll be waiting for you then, at nine."" ""I knowA Agnes, this youg fellow is honest ... but beware of the aristocrat ... beware of miltary man!"" "A garden ... warm with the soft air of spring ... fragrant with blossoms ... white with moonlight ..."" ""Are you happy Agnes?"" ""I have a confession to make to you, Agnes." "I am not ..."" ""A falling star ... did you wish?"" ""No ..." "I was thinking of you ..."" ""You said you had a confession to make."" ""I ..." "I ..." "love you."" "After that night ... when Agnes gave her happines into his keeping ..." "Count Hohenegg could not bear the thought of his approaching marriage" ""But I tell you I'm going to withdraw from this marriage with the Countess!"" ""Impossible!" "On the very eve of your wedding!"" ""I've been a cheat!" "I've broken her heart, but she loves me and I ..."" ""Foolish!" "Think of your position at court ..." "it would mean disgrace!"" ""If I were not a Count ... and She ..."" ""Already the Emperor has learned of your attitude!"" ""I will go the Emperor immediately!"" ""What is this I hear, Count Hohennegg, you desire to withdraw from your marriage with Countess Gisella?"" ""I s your memory so short that you forget your Emperor's wish?"" ""It is my command!"" "Agnes waited patiently for his coming ... she had promised to trust him ... to believe in him ..." "And the merry go-round goes go-round ... and round Mrs. Rossreiten as a new clown" ""You got my little finger?"" ""Signore Silvestro Urbani direct from Italy ... the greatest living bajazzo ..."" ""Italy, hell!" "He used to work for me at the Punch and Judy show!"" ""Poor clown."" ""Don't cry, little children."" ""Don't cry, little boy ..."" ""See, I make you laugh ..."" ""Do you think it was really the wind that blew the flowerpot down?"" ""What is that to me?"" "Sylvester recovery was slow ..." "Agnes was his confort ..." "his little sunbeam." ""Father, we are honored by a visit of the Emperor ... he is here now."" ""Agnes!" "Can it be possible that you still love this impostor?"" ""Liar!" "Cheat!" "Impostor!"" ""Sir ..." "I have come to humble myself before you ..."" ""There is little I can say to express the remorse I feel."" ""But you must believe sir, that I deeply respect ..." "care for you ... your daughter."" ""..." "I love your daughter."" ""A Count in love with a peasant girl?" "Bah!"" ""Do you mean ... that everything is all right ... and we can be married?"" "The Count Hohenegg my husband has told me all about you." ""No!" "No!" "Your husband ..." "it can't be!"" ""It's a lie!" "Tell her it is a lie!" "... Tell her!"" ""Impostor!" "Cheat!" "Liar!"" "Thus stood our little world of good and evil of innocence and guilt, of love and hate." "Then in the distant state of Bosnia ... a shot was fired which touched off the povder magazine of Europe" "WAR The mobilization of armies ..." "nation rising against nation ... anguish of partings ..." ""Horrible, horrible ... no sorrow is spared to me!"" ""Agnes ..."" ""Count Hohennegg ..."" ""I have come again to ask your forgiveness."" ""I forgive the Count ... it was a neektie salesman I loved ..."" ""But it is Count Hohenegg, Agnes who loves you ..."" "Count Hohenegg can never be anything to me."" ""I am leaving with my regiment for the front tanight ... wont you say farewell?"" ""We may never meet again ..."" "Back along the bitter road of defeat straggled the broken of the proud forces of Austria." ""Urban, is there anything I can do for you?"" ""The liar!"" ""I thanked God when I was called ..." "I prayed I'd meet you face to face!"" ""I hate you ... and will curse you with my dying breath!"" ""If my life will make amends ..."" ""To think ... a man could go out hating me like that."" "In Vienna ... a little group of comrades, held together by the common bond of poverty and suffering" ""Princes went up again today ... soon we cannot eat at all."" ""I wish it was Spring again, so that we could go back to the Prater and open the concession."" ""Ladies and gentleman the greatest performance starts right now ..."" ""Didn't I tell you I'd win a lottery?"" ""And you know what I said ..." "if I win you'll win ..."" ""Agnes dear ... if you'll only have me for a husband, I'll try so hard to make you happy."" ""That other one ... don't think of him ... he can never come back!" "He is ..."" ""I saw his name on the death list week ago ..." "I wanted to tell you, but ..."" ""Say that I can hope ..." "I will wait ..."" ""Maybe ... in the Spring ..."" "At last the Prater shed its winter wrappings ..." "Spring ..." "and sunshine and hope..." ""That's right ... three days." "Boniface ... then we'll be married, Agnes and I."" ""Agnes ..." "I have come back to you."" ""I am no longer a Count ..."" ""But you are still married?"" ""She died months ago ..." "in Budapest."" ""I have lived with the single hope that some day you could forgive ... that ... you ..."" ""It wasn't so hard to forgive ..." "I did that on the night you went to war ..."" ""Bartholomew and I to be married day after tomorrow ..."" ""I believed you were dead ..."" ""Agnes!" "You cannot do this think ... you don't love him!" "And love is the only thing that counts ..."" ""No!" "No!" "I have promised Bartholomew ..."" ""Please go, sir ..."" "But in the merry go- round of life" ""A greater love than ours has sent me to you ..."" "" ..." "Bartholomew ..."" "END"