Word: abare
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Merry Widow left oldtimers in the first-night audience starry-eyed with memories of the 1907 days when Widows Ethel Jackson (see cut) and Lina Abar-banell, in hats reminiscent of poultry dinners, sang it for a Broadway run of 421 performances. In the orchestra pit, conducting its willowy waltzes with a hand dipped in authentic Viennese schmalz, was the oldest Merry Widower of them all, bald, paunchy Robert Stolz, who raised a baton on the first Vienna production...
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