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Forbidden Melody (book & lyrics by Otto Harbach; music by Sigmund Romberg; Kirkland & Grisman, producers) is a spavined specimen of that old theatrical wheelhorse, the operetta. Laid in a complicated Balkan kingdom, it tries to be sentimental, succeeds only in being arch. It contains a surprise, Comedienne Ruth Weston singing. Carl Brisson, a large, broad-faced Dane who was once a pugilist, accomplishes both song and dance, has such fidgety legs that he seems to be dancing even when he is not supposed to. Brightest spots are the singing of such amiable Romberg tunes as "No Use Pretending" and "Blame...
Roberta (adapted by Otto Harbach from Alice Duer Miller's Gowns by Roberta, score by Jerome Kern; Max Gordon, producer) is another gallant try at making a handsome, funny and affecting play with music and dancing, girls and dresses. Plot: a U. S. college boy loses his girl because she thinks he is "small-town." To forget her, he visits his Aunt Minnie (Fay Templeton) who is Roberta, a famed Paris dressmaker. Planning to will her establishment to her assistant, a onetime Russian princess (Tamara), Aunt Minnie dies without signing the will, thus forcing her nephew-heir to turn...
...Bankhead gets well to produce Owen Davis' Jezebel, a play about old New Orleans. George White will have a new Scandals, Lew Leslie a new Blackbirds. Walter Hampden is rehearsing Ruy Bias. Max Gordon is making ready Gowns by Roberta, with music & libretto by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. The Brothers Shubert, scrambling out of bankruptcy, have already presented Joe Cook to gasping audiences, will put on a Follies with Fanny Brice. In collaboration with Jed Harris the Shuberts will produce The Green Bay Tree, a play about sexual abnormality calculated to shock as thoroughly as did The Captive...
There is some good music written by Sigmund Rombert and in one song? "Pizarro Was a Very Narrow Man"? Irving Caesar has turned out a rollicking lyric. The book, by Otto Harbach, is usually plausible...
...Other famed alumni, living and dead, include: Thomas W. Goodspeed (1859), a refounder of the University of Chicago; Nelson Dean Jay (1905), Morgan partner; Robert Rice (1896), vice president and general manager of Colorado & Southern Ry.; Thomas Harper Blodgett (1899), president of American Chicle Co.; Playwright Otto Abels Harbach (No! No! Nanette) was in the class of 1895. In addition Knox boasts three U. S. Ministers, one Ambassador, two Governors, one Governor of the Philippines...