Happiness For Two

Famous operetta soubrette Soňa Jansová is presented as a miss according to her contract with the theatre. In fact she is married and has a four-year-old daughter, Evička, whom she claims is her niece. Her husband, the lawyer Karel Svoboda, represents her. This role becomes harder and harder for him: he would prefer not to cover up the real state of affairs. He insists Soňa terminate the contract and leaves Prague to give her two days to make up her mind to do so. After his departure Soňa discovers Evička is missing. She had crept out through half-open doors, later finding herself in the police station where she spent the night. Soňa suspects Karel took Evička with him and does not report the child as missing. The next day, while singing on the radio, her nerves fail her and over the microphone she begs Karel to return her child. He returns as soon as he reads a sensationalist newspaper story about the married Mrs Jansa and her child. The result is not that Soňa loses popularity, as the theatre director fears, but that her forthcoming performances all sell out. The chief of police brings the child to the desperate parents in the theatre. Soňa, overjoyed, sings for the audience a favourite song about Prague.