- Robert Trainor, an American, aids in the romance of the Queen of Herzegovina and the King of Bosnia.
- An alliance between the Queen of Herzegovina ( Mary Pickford ) and the King of Bosnia ( Carlyle Blackwell ) has been decided, and the two monarchs are persuaded into marriage. In the middle of the ceremony, an uprising breaks out and the royal families must flee. With the help of a young American ( Harold Lockwood ) their Majesties are brought to New York, and wind up working in a meat-packing plant, where they begin to embrace and call their new country home.—Pamela Short
- The play deals with kings and queens of toy kingdoms and the trials which beset them in both the hard field of politics and the imaginative realm of romance. Anna Victoria, Queen of Herzegovina, exiled by reasons of political dissension, finds refuge in America. Stephen, the Debonair, King of Bosnia, has also been dethroned, and also comes to America. As may be suspected, they are deeply in love, and their troubles spring from the political exigency which forbids their marriage. Both are penniless, and Anna drifts into a small flat in Harlem, while King Stephen goes to a cheap hotel. The deposed queen, seen in the kitchen of the flat, peeling potatoes, cooking chops, exploring the ice-box and learning the tricks of the dumbwaiter, provides many of the humorous moments of the film. Of course, there can only be one result of the pressure of poverty. Both the king and queen are forced to go to work. Anna becomes a translator, Stephen a clerk. Their employer is Adolph Lauman, a millionaire meat-packer, who represents the American idea of the uselessness of thrones and all such regal nonsense. He takes particular pains to announce to the world that business alone counts with him, but before long his point of view changes; he is willing to compromise. He believes his daughter has aspirations to shine in European society, and he conceives the notion of marrying her to the king, and then using his dollars and his hard-headed American business methods to win back the kingdom of Bosnia for Stephen. The situation is both comic and pathetic, but Lauman's intentions are halted because the king is faithful to Anna, and the daughter is in love with a young American. Anna returns from her stuffy Harlem flat to the glamour of a throne; Stephen is called back to Bosnia, and we are left with the promise that the sound of wedding bells will soon make the two little kingdoms one.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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