Word: fledermaus
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March, "There's Only One Vienna"Schrammel *"Die Fledermaus," Overture Strauss *"The Old Refrain" Kreisler *"Wine, Woman, and Song," Waltz Strauss "Spring Night in Vienna," Waltz Crist *Unfinished Symphony (First Movement) Schubert *"La Valse," Choreographic Poem Ravel *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltz Strauss *Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin Piano Soloist: Jesus Maria Sauroma *Strike Up The Band Gershwin Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
Champagne, Sec (adapted from Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus by Alan Child; lyrics by Robert A. Simon; Dwight
...little Helen Ford (Dearest Enemy) laced herself into a high old-fashioned corset, powdered herself suggestively and came forth to pipe his pet coloratura aria with comically fluttering eyelids and exaggerated soubrette wiggles. But these things supplied the few bright intervals in this latest of many versions of Die Fledermaus. The plot is the same old one : a rich, stuffy Viennese (Tenor George Meader), sentenced to a week in jail, first takes an evening off, goes to a party where he becomes foolishly involved with his chambermaid (Helen Ford) and his wife (Peggy Wood) whom he ogles without recognizing...
...soon, to be called Let 'Em Eat Cake. Frederick Lonsdale's new play, Foreigners, will be given a production by Arch Selwyn. Maria Jeritza, a rich musical comedy personality, will be seen in the operetta Jerry. Dwight Wiman and Lawrence Langner are reviving Strauss's Die Fledermaus with Peggy Wood and Helen Ford singing the leads. George S. Kaufman, that perennial collaborator, and Alexander Woollcott have written a mystery play for Sam Harris. Philip Barry's new play, about the home life of some Boston Irish Catholics, is in preparation. All these and many more were...
...feel pleasantly dreamy at the mere mention of An der Schonen Blauen Donau, to lovers of the bustled, candlelit atmosphere of Die Fledermaus and the sprightly, stagily Hungarian Gypsy Baron, there was sadness in the news last week that the Johann-Strauss-Theater in Vienna had gone bankrupt. Not because of any association with Strauss and his works (the theatre was built in 1908) was it to be regretted, but its passing marked another step in the decline of Vienna's once-renowned product, the operetta. Here had been given the premieres of most of the works of Franz...