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Produced by Milton Aborn's Civic Light Opera Company, which has been presenting a voluminous Gilbert & Sullivan repertoire (TIME, May 18), The Merry Widow was revived in Manhattan last week. "Danilo." that reckless prince, is oHtime, dependable Donald Brian. Oldsters who recalled his appearance in the same role when the operetta was first brought to the U. S. applauded him to the rafters. Many of the jokes and quips are pitifully old, are made even more shabby when Mr. Aborn's company attempts to freshen them, but the Lehar music-lilting "Vilia"' and the charming "Cavalier" song...
Revived last week in Manhattan was the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta The Mikado, presented by Milton Aborn's Civic Light Opera Company. Oldtimers in the audience flinched when the curtain rose to reveal a meaningless shadowgraph sequence of Japanese town life, a very un-Gilbertian interpolation. But all was set right again when Howard Marsh stepped out and began to sing "Gentlemen, I pray you tell...
Although Producer Aborn's troupe is not careful about the authenticity of its production, the revival is on the whole a good one. Further items of the Aborn company's Gilbert & Sullivan repertory will be: H. M. S. Pinafore, The Gondoliers, Patience...
...convent. In curious deference to modern religious scruples these institutions have now become a girls' school and a military barracks. The Herbert tunes ("I Love Thee, I Adore Thee," "Gaze on This Face So Noble") are still the best features of the entertainment, are nicely sung by Milton Aborn's revival company...
...Count of Luxembourg is Franz Lehar's famed operetta about an impoverished resident of the Latin Quarter who gets paid to marry an unknown beauty and then, obviously, falls in love with her. Milton Aborn's revival company intones several splendid tunes you will recognize if you are old enough: "Love Breaks Every Bond," "Are You Going to Dance?" "I'm in Love...