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...York Daily News and of Editor Eleanor Medill Patterson of the Washington Herald; of a heart attack; after long illness; in Chicago. Died. Clay Meredith Greene, 83, of injuries suffered when he fell and broke his hip last May; in San Francisco, Calif. A famed playwright and librettist at the turn of the Century, he was eleven times (1891-98, 1902-05) Shepherd of New York's Lambs Club, was the oldest member of San Francisco's famed Bohemian Club. His passion play Nazareth was the first produced in the U. S. (1901), is revived every third year...
...Gibberish, though Librettist Stokes is part Indian...
...unique scenery, including two invaluable magic lantern screens which announce numbers and situations, and a papier-máché horse which slides out of a pipe organ just in time to save Captain Macheath's life. Composer Weill's music is dissonantly insinuating. A sample of Librettist Brecht's strange but robust work...
Married. Alice Muriel Astor Obolensky, 31, sister of Vincent Astor, divorced wife of Prince Serge Platonovitch Obolensky Neledinsky Meletsky (of Russia's oldest noble family); and Raimund von Hofmannsthal, 26, Austrian writer, son of Richard Strauss's late librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal; secretly; in Newark...
...Oscar Hammerstein II & Jerome Kern; Peggy Fears, producer). In collaboration for the first time since they wrote historic Showboat, the team of Hammerstein & Kern has contrived an exquisite frieze of melody against the background of Bavaria, that good clean land with a song in its throat. The tale Librettist Hammerstein has to tell variously interrupts or suddenly pounces upon or absentmindedly neglects the tunes which flow continuously from Composer Kern's brimming music box. Neither operetta, musicomedy nor revue, Music in the Air is billed simply as "a musical adventure." Scenes are labeled Leit Motif, Etudes, Pastoral, Impromptu, Sonata...