Word: cleopatras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sheba" Gounod 2. Overture to "The Sicilian Vespers" Verdi 3. Waltz from "Eugen Onegin" Tschaikowsky 4. Fantasia, "Madame Butterfly" Puccini 5. Prelude to "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg" Wagner 6. Dance of the Priestesses from "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens 7. Ballet Music from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli 8. Intermezzo from "Cleopatra's Night" Hadley 9. Selection, "Carmen" Bizdt 10. Intermezzo, "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni 11. Coronation March from "The Prophet" Mayerbeer
...Give 'em what they want, as Cleopatra used to say"--thus ends Mr. A. H. Woods' article in the New York Tribune telling why he produces bedroom farces. According to Mr. Woods the free and breezy plays are what the public wants, and that is why so many are written and produced. Even Shakespeare, says the modern concocter of the tired business man's farcical cocktails, wrote to please the public taste of his time. If Shakespeare were living and were to come to Mr. Woods with the manuscript of "Macbeth", the latter states that he would say, "Bill, they...
...Princess Radjah", with her famous "Cleopatra" dance, accompanied by a seven-foot snake, furnished a sufficiently thrilling curtain-piece. There was but one regret; that Billy B. Van didn't get a chance to finish that joke about the girl in Paris...