She made her début as a dancer at Nationaltheatret in 1911, in the ballet pantomime Prinsessen på erten, an adaptation of the story "The Princess and the Pea" by Hans Christian Andersen.
Her most successful work is her contribution to the Little Golden Books, The Princess and the Pea.
In the Humanities Lyceum, where she studied, she starred in a school production of The Princess and the Pea.
River's reference to The Princess and the Pea is a typically double-sided remark, referring to the story of a Princess that could not get to sleep because of a pea under her mattress.
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She is rambling (with the occasional stutter) about how she apparently cut up her mattress for reasons unknown to anyone else but herself, making a reference to the fairy tale The Princess and the Pea.
Much as in the fairy tale of The Princess and the Pea, the slightest point of discomfort can be endlessly distracting.
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