Cirrus@Austlit

A down-and-out novelist, desperate at the rejection of the novel over which he has laboured for eight years, dashes off a story in a night, submits it as the journal of the first love of simple Australian girl Daisy Smith, and sees 'Daisy's' book become an overnight success.

A teenage actor buys his way into a Broadway production.

A musical Ruritanian romance.

In the New York Times, the piece is described as 'a play about the exiled king of a mythical country who comes to America and finds romance' (8 June 1955, p.59). Later, the New York Times expanded on this to describe him as 'a deposed king of a frantic country called Brandovia where the inhabitants spent their time exporting bologna and fighting off assaults by their aggressive neighbors, the Carps and the Gloats' (23 August 1955, p.49).

Further Reference:

Adams, Val. 'TV Show to Stage an Original Play', New York Times, 8 June 1955, p.59.

Dunckley, Dorothy. 'Cyril Stars in Lavish TV Show', The Argus, 7 September 1955, p.9.

Hastings, Peter. 'One of Broadway's Top Ten', Australian Women's Weekly, 12 May 1954, p.13.

Shanley, J.P. 'TV: Hail, King Ritchard!', New York Times, 23 August 1955, p.49.