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...Company's departure for Boston, showed various ways opera might be enlivened and perhaps made to pay. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett crawled inside the Siegfried dragon and mourned because "no cigaret or corset ever asked me to endorse it." Coming events were then advertised in lurid cinemafashion. Tosca's name was changed to "Hungry Passions." Rigoletto became "The Hunchback in the Harem." For the sake of the tired businessman, Wagner's Nibelungen Ring was whisked off in less than two minutes...
Lulu's story, hatched in the erotic mind of Playwright Frank Wedekind, is even more lurid than poor bewildered Wozzeck's. Lulu is a vampire who feeds on power and lust. She destroys three men in the first two acts. At the end when she is murdered and horribly mutilated, the orchestra emits one terrifying shriek. Then only did Bostonians sit up in their seats. For although Berg again "uses the twelve-tone scale, he weaves it into a crafty harmonic design, subjects it to his moods which are for the most part restrained...
...King is shipping to New Orleans as brides for his colonists. In New Orleans, Marietta (Jeanette MacDonald) promptly makes the acquaintance of a dashing young soldier (Eddy) in a coonskin cap. There are obstacles to their romance: to avoid marrying a colonist, Marietta gives the Governor (Frank Morgan) a lurid account of her past. Just when it occurs to the soldier to regard this as fiction, the Spanish Grandee arrives to carry his fiancee back to France. Nonetheless, when last seen, Capt. Warrington and Marietta are riding off happily together through some mountains while yodeling "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life...
Enveloping Huey Long in a verbal flank movement, the General continued: "Of recent months there has been an open alliance between the great Louisiana demagogue and this political padre. . . . These two patriots may have been reading last summer's lurid story about an American Hitler riding into Washington at the head of troops. That would be definite to Huey because he knows what part of the horse...
...recall, the story revolves about the biography in the making of Marion Forsythe. (Ann Harding), the self-styled "female Casanova" and "institution" in the eyes of the American people. Editor Richard Kurt (Robert Montgomery) contracts this lurid tale for his magazine and then proceeds to fall in love with the writer, though she represents all the tolerant decadence of the society which he is fighting. A bombastic Senator with the heart of a child (Edward Everett Horton to us, "Bunny" to Marion) and an athletic publisher, Bernarr McFadden in caricature, would prevent the diary's publication. Marion might recall some...