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Died. Lucien Boyer, 66, Paris music-hall singer, songwriter, librettist, entrepreneur; in Paris. He popularized MadeIon in World War I, wrote for Mistinguette and Maurice Chevalier, founded Montmartre's famed Chat Noir cabaret. As Montmartre's Ambassador Eccentric & Extraordinary, he was once delegated to present his credentials to President Harding, but never made the trip...
Paul Bunyan, gigantic, legendary Northwest logger, might well make music surge in some great U.S. symphony. Last week he was the hero-although he never appeared onstage-of an anemic operetta put up by two British expatriates. The librettist of the operetta, corn-shocky Poet Wystan Hugh Auden, excused himself for muscling in on U.S. mythology by declaring that Bunyan is a universal figure...
Sleek, Bourbon-faced John Kendrick Bangs, who died in 1922, was a humorist, a lecturer, an editor, a critic, a librettist, a politician-and successful as all six. Lillian Russell played in his chipper Gilbertian revision of The School for Scandal. As a lecturer he earned $500 a week for discreet blends of laughter and sentiment on such subjects as Salubrities (nice celebrities) I Have Met. As an editor he diapered the old Life's first years, brightened up "The Editor's Drawer" of Harper's Monthly, ran Harper's Weekly until Colonel George Harvey crowded...
...production, was rushed into view because, said Marc Blitzstein, "it's later than we think and it has something to say that I want said right now." No For An Answer is about Greeks, but its references to Greek pluck are purely coincidental: Composer-Librettist Blitzstein began it more than two years ago, when most people thought of Greeks as hamburger-joint men. Mr. Blitzstein's Greeks are waiters in a summer hotel. They form a Diogenes Social Club, which burgeons into a union. A young upper-class couple fall in with the waiters: they want to learn...
...tendency toward low comedy in their productions last year, the Met put on as delightful a performance of Mozart as any within memory. 'The Marriage of Figaro, of course, in its original form was Beaumarchais' virulent satire on the French nobility.' If Da Ponte, Mozart's incompetent librettist, had not emasculated Beaumarchais' play of all its social satire, until it was nothing but lace and frills, we might have a more cogent piece of drama. Even as it is, Mozart's score is so wonderfully expressive and dramatic that of itself it creates vital characters where there are nothing...