Word: libretto
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...internal activities of Princeton have not been interrupted, however. The Triangle Club has announced the musical comedy which it will present in New York during the Christmas vacation. It is entitled "Safety First," the libretto being written by John Biggs 1917 and the music by F. Warburton Guilbert 1919, who wrote the songs in last season's show. The Triangle Club has been producing musical comedies annually ever since it was founded by Booth Tarkington...
Announcement has been made that Professor Horatio Parker, Dean of the Yale Music School, and W. Brain Hooker, Yale '02, have won a $10,000 prize, offered for an American opera. It is entitled "Fairyland." The score was written by Professor Parker, and the libretto by William Brian Hooker, who collaborated with Professor Parker in the opera "Mona...
...versatile acting, entitles him to be considered the best male singer heard here in operetta for the past few years, with the exception of Orville Harold. The other members of the cast are familiar musical-comedy figures. It is a distinct relief to find a piece, the libretto of which does not suffer from the injection of slap-stick and futile appeals to the powers below, and in spite of the cold reception "Gypsy Love" received in New York, doubtless for this very reason, it is the best operetta seen this season. One may take a girl to it without...