Word: gretel
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...turn. In Ripon the boys prefaced their church songs with the Star Spangled Banner, sung with the same scrupulous care they would put into a mass. They clowned superbly in a special number based on Strauss's Blue Danube, neatly and beautifully acted a closing scene from Hansel & Gretel...
...comedies have had the most success in translation. The Cleveland Orchestra has given praiseworthy performances of Die Fledermaus and The Secret of Suzanne in English. Philadelphia excelled with Falstaff and The Marriage of Figaro last winter. All children want to understand the words when they go to Hansel and Gretel, a fact recognized years ago by the touring San Carlo Company...
With each change of opera there was some new singer. German Baritone Eduard Habich was the tipsy, loud-mouthed father in Hänsel und Gretel. Baritone Julius Huehn from Pittsburgh made a sonorous herald for Lohengrin. Chase Baromeo of the late Chicago Civic Opera was the High Priest in Aïda. Chilean Carlo Morelli went through the customary antics as Marcello...
...hard, enlivened the operas in which it appeared, won praise partly because it represented such an improvement over the stodgy, lifeless dancing which went on at the Metropolitan under the Gatti-Casazza regime. The new U. S. organization gave its first substantial demonstration after the Hänsel und Gretel performance, presented comely ballerinas, several of them highly talented. Outstanding performances were given by Anatole Vilzak, once of the Russian Imperial Ballet, and young William Dollar, who has the most spectacular technique of any male dancer now appearing in public. Unfortunately the ballet was Reminiscence, which calls...
...read of the exploits of an Obstetrician who terms himself "Love's Whitewing, or the D. S. C. of the tender passions," or of the horrible torture Mr. Clippey underwent in his frustrated efforts to "wash his hands," or of the sad plight of "a spinster named Gretel, who wore underclothes made of metal," or chuckle over Mr. Nash's delicate eulogy to a privy. But personally we enjoyed most a little song by Odgen Nash entitled "Quartet For The Sidewalks of New York" from which we quote a stanza...