Overview

Will Thomas Trout ever learn to do the right thing? On the very eve of his wedding to Lucy Willow he introduces to the home of her strictly Victorian parents an actor and actress. To his horror Augustus Willow discovers that, not only do they belong to that notorious profession, but they hail from France - land of dreadful moral laxity, where women display their ankles, and tennis is played! His worst fears are realized when Lucy elopes with the dashing Pierre. Yoicks, tally-ho and the hunt is on, to France where the staid Victorians are nearly arrested as spies on the eve of the Franco-Prussian war. When Pierre - reported killed in the fighting - makes an unexpected return, Thomas at last has his chance to Do the Right Thing. For the Chorus Sufficient work to keep a large musical company busy, with Vivian Ellis at the peak of his most tuneful form. There are several effective set-pieces for general company in addition to harmonized versions of some of the score's hits. The chorus appear as relations and friends of the Willow family, French bathing beauties and mashers, café customers and waiters. There is a certain amount of dancing, including a short dream ballet sequence.