Word: danilo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lubitsch version, Captain Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) is dispatched from Marshovia to Paris to marry his country's richest widow (Jeanette MacDonald) lest she impoverish the royal treasury by marrying a foreigner. He goes to Maxim's for a farewell debauch, makes love to a cocotte who turns out to be the widow in disguise. Meeting her again at a diplomatic reception, he finds it impossible to convince her that his affection is sincere until he has been convicted of treason for failing in his mission...
...Stroheim Merry Widow, like the original operetta, concerned a Prince Danilo. The real Prince Danilo of Montenegro sued Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for libel, collected $4,000 in a Paris court. Well aware that 63-year-old Prince Danilo, living modestly near Nice, must have pricked up his ears when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid Princess Youssoupov $250,000 & costs for libelously dipping into the history of Russia and Rasputin (TIME, March 12; Aug. 20), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer took no chances with this new version of The Merry Widow. In addition to demoting the Prince to a Captain, they were careful...
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...
...Merry Widow" with Beppie De Vries and Donald Brian, the original Prince Danilo, if it does nothing more, gives some idea of the sort of things our fathers liked. There has been so much said about the splendor of this particular opus of Mr. Lehar that one is likely to form exaggerated expectations, especially if the previous revivals in this group have not been seen. The vastness of modern musical plays are very apt to make one forget that George White and Florenz Ziegfeld are unique to this generation. Therefore, those who know of this operetta only through the famous...