Word: librettists
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...high yella " and " brown skin " flavor, degenerated into a cheap imitation of white musical comedy plus extravagant caricature of the native jazz tradition. How Come, in the opinion of most metropolitan reviewers, is the poorest of the lot. Whatever redeeming quality it has is furnished by Eddie Hunter, the librettist and comedian, who was hailed by the press agents as the "colored Jimmie Barton." But his eminence is due to the flatness of the surrounding country...
...Blake, authors of the Negro jazz revue Shuffle Along, and Carlo and Sanders, composers of the musical hit Tangerine, shows what Broadway composers of established ability can do when they don't try very hard, and the book, by Charles Bell, explains why Harry B. Smith, the veteran librettist, could write seven or eight musical shows a year without seriously taxing his talents or intelligence. In a word, a very mediocre show, without even the redeeming feature of a first rate comedian...
...star gazer, didn't over-play, in spite of a temptation. And the really lively role of the show was that of John Harwood. He was the green grocer last year in "Getting Married," and the shift from Shavianism to Shubertism did not curb his artfulness. If the librettist, Cosmo Hamilton, will work as hard at revision as Harwood did at the premiere, "The Star Gazer" may discover an orbit for itself on Broadway...
...Domingos, the master of court ceremonies, who has seen Fanchette enter, and finding only one lady present, and that one masked, is led by jealousy to suppose the young lady to be his young wife. The confusion attendant upon this situation is the foundation upon which the librettist has built up a succession of most interesting and amusing scenes and incidents, all of which terminate in the usual happy fashion...
...Alcayde is a two-act comic opera of a fairly legitimate order. The book is by George Stephens L. S., and the music by F. E. Barry '97, the authors of last year's play. The librettist has furnished a bright vigorous book. The plot has the merit of being substantial and connected, calling for plenty of lively situations and humorous complications, and giving the characters a wide range of acting, from serio-comic to pure burlesque, without departing from the central interest of the opera. Almost all the songs, dances, and bits of burlesque are closely allied...