Word: comical
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...book? Yes, the book was pretty evasive, like all well-behaved comic opera librettos. A princess, dwelling in a land where thinness is held to be a vice, proves an eyesore to her noble parent because she has not been able to acquire sufficient avoirdupois to be accounted a beauty. A young American happens to disagree with the ideas of the community regarding the beautiful, and informs the young lady that she is his ideal. She is discovered by her sister in the arms of the stranger, and the news is conveyed to her "papa". The stranger flees...
...each case the reviewer has curiously reflected the actual language of the performance he witnessed. Thus the language of the reviews of "The Blue Bird" and of "Kathleen Ni Hoolihan" approaches critical dignity, while the dialect of the reviews of the musical comedies suggests the influence of comic opera lyrics. Mr. McMahon's letter on "The Playboy" capably presents one side of the discussion that has risen over that drama...
Miss Glaser did well in a rather limited part. The singing was above the comic-opera average and the scenery unusually attractive. The audience applauded with a suspiciously professional fervor...
...Night. 1. March, "Tannhauser,"Wagner 2. Waltz, "Les Chanteurs des Bois," Forbach 3. Selection, "Naughty Marietta," Herbert 4. Overture, "Rienzi," Wagner 5. Huldingung's March, Wagner 6. Albumblatt, Wagner 7. Selection, "Lohengrin," Wagner 8. Ride of the Valkyries, Wagner 9. Overture, "Tannhauser," Wagner 10. Night Fly Dance (from Isles Comic Opera), Far Away Maquarre 11. Waltz, "Espana," Waldteufel 12. Lichtenstein March, B. Triebel
...comic drawing showing Rev. Lyman Abbott and Eva Tanguay, the actress, linked arm in arm and in scanty attire, labelled "Human Affinities," has caused the suppression by President Lowell of this week's issue of the Lampoon, the famous Harvard comic weekly...