Word: daniello
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...blackface, jazz-band comedian. He wanted the violin which belonged to Danielle, a famed virtuoso, wanted it more than any of the women who wanted him, and he stole it. Anita, meanwhile, a fattish prima donna, went from Max, the queasy composer who took his inspiration glacier-gazing, to Daniello, back to Max again. She it was, unwittingly, who escaped with the stolen violin concealed in her banjo case. But Jonny followed her to Switzerland for it, jumped in her window one morning, recovered it and had it for his jazz until Daniello recognized its tone over the radio...
...Ziegfeld nor Dillingham production. Rather it is the notorious jazz opera of Ernst Krenek, 28-year-old Austrian, and it was presented last week by the august Metropolitan Opera Company with such important singers as Basso Michael Bohnen for Jonny, Tenor Walter Kirchoff for Max, Baritone Friedrich Schorr for Daniello, Sopranos Florence Easton for Anita, Editha Fleischer for Yvonne her maid, and Artur Bodanzky conducting...
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