" He sees them off at the train station.Following the orders of Helen and his doctors, he has promised in their absence to eat properly, and not to smoke or drink.George: Well, I never thought of it just that way before, but I guess hat""s about the size of it.And I lost no time either.It started with a very funny incident about sixty years ago...Through Cohan himself, the film commences to tell the story, in voice-over flashback (in a sequence of ""plays-within-a-play""), of the life of the Cohan family.The blue, bulbous domes of the Russian Orthodox Church loom above the small town.Fat, old-lady babushkas carry a four-tiered wedding cake down the street toward the American Legion hall (Lemko Hall), the brick building/site for the reception.A diplomatic cover-up conceals the real facts: "A SPECIAL EMBASSY BULLETIN REPORTS THE SUDDEN ILLNESS OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS ANN.