Rex Ingram

“ Too many kings might spoil the broth."
"We will be back tonight after the coronation. You understand, Josef—I shall hold you responsible for the King."
"There is the King—and he's as fit as I am!"
"It cannot be the King! I tell you I saw him drain the bottle myself!"
At high noon.
"No word from Hentzau yet?"
"The Duke of Strelsau! 'Tis he should be crowned King today!"
All is well - Salutations to Michael I King of Ruritania!
Hentzau
The famous Black Cuisassiers, the back-bone of Michael's power in Strelsau. ”

“ Shave him and he'd be the King!
"I am Colonel Sapt, Chief of Staff to King Rudolf. This gentlemen if Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim."
"May I ask your name?"
"I knew it! You're of the English Rassendylls?"
"Why, Fritz, you know the story?"
"You have the height too—and even the voice. Why man!—but for your beard you are the King of Ruritania!"
"You must taste of our hospitality. The Hunting Lodge is only a few steps away."
Dame Nature is not supposed to repeat herself—but it is ever the exception that proves the rule.
"One of the English Rassendylls—"
"Well met, cousin! ”

“ It looks as though he'll not come to for hours."
"The last bottle—drugged!"
"Take it all in all—a very pretty plan of Black Michael's to keep the King away from Strelsau today."
"Postpone the coronation on account of the King's illness.
"The people know his illnesses—besides, if it is postponed for any reason whatsoever—Michael will seize the throne himself."
"Why man! Half the army is there to meet him with Black Michael at its head."
"As a man grows old he believes in fate. ”

“ I don't know why God has let me love you, but I must be true to my country and my people."
"You are right, my darling—God help us both!"
"Whatever else I wear, this will I wear always—till I die—and after."
"Be happy, my dear one. It would break my heart to think that I had brought grief to you—"
ЭЕНДА
"God does not always make the right men kings. You are the finest Elphberg of them all!" ”