Word: gretel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Revival. Altogether charming was the performance of Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel. Queen Mario was Gretel, a wee child with pigtails stiff as taffy sticks. Editha Fleisher was Hansel, just ragged and happy. There was a real witch with matted gray hair and a nose like a spigot who rode on her broomstick way into the sky and ate little children. There was a gingerbread house and a red-hot oven where plop ended the witch pushed by wee Gretel just too stupid to get in herself. "Hocus pocus. . . ." Children loved it. So did grown-ups who quite forgot...
...buts. In Die Meistersinger, Crete Stiickgold from the Berlin Staatsoper was Eva, comely, pleasing. Richard Mayr (Vienna Staatsoper) was a dignified, experienced Pogner whose voice had seen better days. Dorothee Manski (Berlin Staatsoper) was the witch in Hansel und Gretel, a blathering old woman with small time to sing. Philine Falco in La Forza del Destino, Mildred Parisette in Violanta and Hansel, Margaret Bergen in the Sunday night concert, had small opportunities...
...operas: Turandot, to open the season Oct. 31, with Maria Jeritza & Giacomo Lauri-Volpi; Korngold's Violanta, the first novelty, also with Jeritza, Nov. 5; on the same afternoon, Hansel und Gretel; Gioconda, to open the Philadelphia season Nov. 1, with Rosa Ponselle & Beniamino Gigli...
Tonight is Harvard night at the Pops Concerts. The following program, starting at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall, will be offered. Overture to "Haensel und Gretel" Humperdinck "The Damanation of Faust," three excerpts Berlioz The Harvard Glee Club, Dr. Davison, conductor Give a Rouse Bantock Hark All Ye Lovely Saints Wellkes Four Choruses from "Patience" Sullivan A Midsummer Night's Dream, suite Mendelssohn "Fountains of Rome," Symphonic Poem Respighi The Harvard Glee Club Glorious Apollo Webbe Two English Folk Songs Ar. by Williams and Holst The Hundred Pipers Scotch Folk Song Finale, from "Die Meistersinger" Wagner Bacchanale from "Tannahaeuser...
Announced the critics: "The most successful translation since Hansel and Gretel . . . one stirring tune...