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...March, "On the Mail" Goldman *Overture to, "The Bartered Bride" Smetana *Liebesfreud Kreisler *"Aida," Fantasia Vordi *Invitation to the Dance Weber-Berlioz *Ave Maria Bach-Gounod *Finale, Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky *"Roberta," Selection Kern "Romance des Fleurs" Howard *Wedding March from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn...
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...
This exposition has taken a slow hour and not a chorus girl has yet been seen. Fay Templeton, a turtle-like little old (67) lady, has sung one charming song with the pinched remains of a fine alto voice, and then died. Composer Jerome Kern has supplied half .a dozen excellent tunes. Appearing as a customer of Aunt Minnie, Lyda Roberti has got her usual comedy out of wriggling her stomach to show that she is a dangerous woman and waving her arms to show that she is a tomboy. Finally novelty appears...
...waiting until Tallulah 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...
...Music In the Air," Colonial--Music by the consummate artists, Mr. Jerome Kern, and the book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. A large production without the gaudiness of most of the super shows. The old favorites, Al Shean and Reinald Werrenrath perform ably. Last week...