Word: loreleis
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...characters all spring vividly to life, led by June Walker who, though brunette by birth and nature, offers a perfect performance as the cooing, wide-eyed, traveling siren, Lorelei Lee. Edna Hibbard's saucy nose, jaunty figure and coon-shouting voice add immensely to the personality of Lorelei's hard-boiled girlfriend, Dorothy, upon whose caustic nature has been fathered the echo: "Brunettes prefer gentlemen...
...Lorelei Lee, as nearly every one knows, is the long-suffering little murderess from Arkansas whom a Mr. Gus Eisman, Chicagoan in the button profession, found in Holly-wood and "educated." Her schoolroom is a suite at the Ritz, her text the Eisman checkbook. The play opens on shipboard, with Lorelei out-golddigging a pair of antique Britishers, what time she snares Henry Spoffard, a Presbyterian playboy from Philadelphia with millions to be diverted from moral uplift to Mr. Cartier's jewelry store. She winds up in Manhattan having a three-day debut party with boys from the Racquet...
...effect, and her Boston exhibition was to be expected. But, Cincinnati, fore-warned, was spared from her baleful influence. Madame Gadski followed her; but the American Legion was awake to its duty. "Music hath charms", they remembered, and decided that her voice should be no incantation, like the Lorelei's, to woo her hearers into political philandering...
...whether the masterpiece is written in the guttural snarl of the Teuton or the musical rhythm of France. This done, the worst is over. If the work belongs to the French school translate firently, using love as the fundamental; if German, emphasize the wonders of the Fatherland, whistle the Lorelei and depart, thanking the instructor for listening...
...Mendelssohn--"Lorelei." Glee Club and Choral Society. Soloist, Miss Marguerite Fiske...