""In their hurry to get to the Plaza Hotel (a secure symbol of material success and luxury), he lies about his secretary""s physical condition and rudely, irresponsibly, and inconsiderately commandeers a taxicab for both of them from another waiting customer.The government of a "mythical kingdom" - the Balkan state of Freedonia, is suffering an emergency.It has gone bankrupt through mismanagement and is on the verge of revolution.The country""s richest dowager millionairess, the wide and widowed benefactress Mrs.Gloria Teasdale (Margaret Dumont in a welcome return as the perfect foil for Groucho) has offered $20 million to sponsor and support the cash-poor government, but only if it is placed under new leadership:The government has been mismanaged.I""m having a few people in afterwards.Do come along and bring Mr.Lermontov with you." Palmer shared the note with Lermontov and added about the contessa: "She""s a great patron of the arts.In the post WWII era, three of the impassioned students, not yet identified, made an oblique reference (regarding their war-like attack upon the theatre""s seats) to the suicidal charge during the Crimean War ("Into the Valley of Death - Into the Jaws of Hell - Rode the 600"), memorialized in Alfred Lord Tennyson""s 1854 poemThe Charge of the Light Brigade.