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...Strauss Goes to Boston (music by Robert Stolz & Johann Strauss Jr.; lyrics by Robert Sour; book by Leonard L. Levinson; produced by Felix Brentano) opened Broadway's 1945-46 season without letting in much fresh air. An operetta about Johann Strauss (George Rigaud) headlining the great Boston Jubilee of 1872 and breaking hearts on Beacon Hill, it muffs the three real opportunities provided by the story. Far from conveying any of the devilish Strauss charm it babbles about, the book doesn't even billow with good lush operetta sentiment; it is just crushingly dull...
...schedule for the 25 remaining performances promised none of the oldtime greats - like Bruno Walter, Lotte Lehmann, Max Reinhardt and Adolf Busch. Instead there would be Czech conductor Felix Prohaska; Rosl Schwaiger, s promising and pretty young blond Salzburg soprano; and Pfc. Gilbert Winkler, a 20-year-old calvary rifleman from New Jersey with piano talent. The only opera on this year's program is Mozart's II Seraglio; it is the only one that the Salzburgers could fit out fit a complete set of scenery...
...Felix Mendelssohn, the Nazi's No. 1 musical scapegoat, was back in open favor in Germany. In Munich his music led the program of the first symphony concert played in U.S.-occupied Germany. BBC reported meantime that records of both Mendelssohn and Offenbach (also blacklisted) had been found at Hitler's Berchtesgaden hideaway...
From the weird, camouflaged concrete of a Jap-built field the troop carriers took off. With them went Colonel Felix ("Snatch") Dupont's supply gliders (being used for the first time in the Philippines), loaded with pack howitzers, jeeps, radios and supplies. Over the flatlands at Luzon's tip the parachutists blossomed from their transports. Gliders slid into the high grass unopposed. Said wit nesses : like maneuvers on the village green...
Married. Deanna Durbin, 23, round-faced cinema songstress; and Felix Jack son, 43, German-born producer of her current film (Can't Help Singing); she for the second time, he for the fourth; in Las Vegas...