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Music Hath Charms (score by Rudolf Friml; Libretto by Rowland Leigh, George Rosener, John Shubert; Shuberts, producers). In operatic circles, Maria Jeritza has always been as famed for her business acumen as for her wit and charm. She had the good sense to duck out of Music Hath Charms before that mossy opus reached Manhattan...
...respective merits of George Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin, the important triumvirate in the U. S. songwriting industry. But comparisons are inept. George Gershwin, more technically ambitious than the others, has more musically ambitious enthusiasts. Jerome Kern has never claimed to be a popular songwriter. Like Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg, he writes wholly for shows. His charming music would fit well into the best of Viennese operettas. When Alexander Woollcott wrote his biography of Irving Berlin (1924), he asked Jerome Kern to supply a colleague's estimate. Kern was reminded of Wagner because Berlin, like the operatic...
After having had its name changed innumerable times the new Friml operetta has been chirstened "Annina" and the first performance will be given tomorrow night at the Shubert. At the head of a pretentious cast is the Viennese prima donna, Mme. Jeritza, famous for her voice and blonde hair. The story holds true to the tradition of light opera both in having its setting in the lazy and carefree Vienna of Francis Joseph, and in the Cinderella motiff which is the basis of the plot. With the singing of Jeritza, the undoubted musical ability of Mr. Friml, and the elaborate...
Whether this operetta is revived perennially like "The Mikado," "Blossom Time," and "The student Prince," or whether like many of Victor Herbert's and Friml's creations, the properties of "show Boat" lauguish in some downtown warehouse, its music will survive long in the repertoire of remembered favorites...
...peacocks on opera nights. Here last week Ambroise Thomas' Mignon and Friedrich Smetana's Bartered Bride opened Cincinnati's season: eight weeks of standard grand opera, two of light opera (this year, Vincent Youman's & Herbert Stothart's Wild flower and Rudolf Friml's Firefly). Conductor is Isaac Van Grove. Of the able if not world-celebrated singers the most popular are Sopranos Myrna Sharlow and Josephine Lucchese. Contralto Marta Wittkowska, Tenor Forrest Lamont, Basso Herbert Gould. Last year the Zoo Opera was in need of patrons, felt that an endowment campaign would...