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Captain Ladislas. To avoid marrying the Count, Irma decides to run away. Irma is told that her twin brother, Fedor, has deserted from his regiment to marry a French opera singer, and if he is found, he will be shot for desertion. Irma plans to disguise herself as Fedor, which would have two benefits: she would get out of marrying the Count, and Fedor would not be executed. She flees but leaves Fresco a suicide letter saying that the impending marriage to the Count caused her to take her life.
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176:: Irma, her twin brother Fedor, and Musette, a gypsy fortune teller. Irma, an heiress from Budapest, is studying ballet. She is in love with a young Hussar captain, Ladislas, but is being forced to marry a silly pianist, Count Barezowski. When Musette arrives, she is mistaken for Irma; the case of mistaken identity fosters many complications, but all ends happily.
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Berezowski, a poor Polish composer, discovers that a student in the ballet school at the Budapest Opera will inherit a fortune. He plans to meet and marry her for the money. The School's ballet master, Fresco, wants to split the expected windfall with the Count. They discover that the heiress
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either the army or his sweetheart but has heroically led a squad on a secret mission that resulted in a critical
Hungarian victory. All rejoice, and Irma is free to wed Ladislas, while Musette, Sandor, Fedor, and Mlle Pompom, can marry.
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