Word: arabella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fluffy, fleecy, feathery indeed is Actress Zorina with her pale face, charming figure, dainty dancing and foolproof accent; never more so than in the scene where she is visited by her sister angels from Heaven and floats across the stage cooing their names: Clarrinda, Rosa-leena, Seronel-la, Arabella. In the same mood are at least two of Composer Rodgers' best tunes: I Married An Angel (a natural for the hurdy-gurdies) and Spring Is Here...
...pass over "Don Giovanni" to consider "Der Rosenkavalier." This opera combines expertly three phases of Strauss's genius, his dramatic flare in the overture, many a charming Vicnneso waltz and pure Mozart-like melodies. The trio for female voices, which foreshadows the duet for soprano and alto in "Arabella," has been ranked with the famous quintet from Wagner's "Dic Meistersinger." And the entrance of the Rosenkavalier in the second act, clad all in white, is one of the most brilliant scenes in all opera...
...Arabella had been a bigger or a faster ship, Standish would doubtless have been pulled in by its suction, smashed by the propellers. As it was, he took quite a buffeting before he popped up in the Arabella's wake. At first he was not at all alarmed, simply embarrassed. He shouted, but nobody heard him. But he knew that on such a small ship his absence would soon be noted; the water was pleasantly lukewarm; he was a strong swimmer and could float indefinitely; he knew there were no sharks in those latitudes. "Just the same...
Nevertheless Standish did not get panicky. He acted on the whole with remarkable common sense. Knowing that it was simply a matter of time before the Arabella put back to pick him up, he passed the time by himself as well as he could. First he sacrificed his expensive suit and his shoes, but tried to save his wallet. When common sense overcame his modesty he let his striped underclothes go. Meanwhile, on the Arabella, everything was going just as quietly...
...pirate craft, turn pirates themselves. With Britain at war with France and James II ousted at home by William of Orange, Blood gets a navy commission, captures a French man-of-war in a tremendous battle. That is enough for him to be appointed Jamaica's governor, to Arabella's delight and her uncle's extreme discomfiture...