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...Muny" opera, this summer, has $77 citizen-guarantors, a backing of $103,000 and a roster of well-paid performers which includes Evelyn Herbert, Odette Myrtil, Katherine Carrington, Gladys Baxter, Marguerita Sylva, Leslie Adams, Robert Halliday, Alexander Gray. The "Muny" way is to have local choristers and dancers who work very hard for very little and get their pictures in the papers. For "Muny" opera some 1,700 seats are free to first-comers who arrive hours before curtain time, munch their suppers while they wait. In the $2 seats early-dining socialites sit comfortably on cushions hawked at every...
...swing into a routine, and by numerous chorus-boy sailors named Smith. Jack Oakie's talents are subdued by his struggles with the dialog. A girl named Polly Walker, new to films, who plays opposite him, has not enough vitality to get her role across. Best shot: fat Marguerita Padula, made up in blackface, leading the Negro chorus in the "Hallelujah'' number...
...thrill of a new discovery. It was a Faust rejuvenated, lifted well out of the operatic rut, a Faust as true to the spirit of Goethe's poem as to Gounod's music. There was no portly prima donna past her prime to parade as the guileless Marguerita, no heroic stage devil preposterously horned and tailed, no paunchy, heroic Faust singing to the gallery. All that had been discarded. Instead, the curtain went up on one Faust, an aged dissatisfied philosopher with a voice a little pinched, and went down on another, a cavalier Faust, the creation...
...artists left the Eastman School, went into business for themselves as the American Opera Company, sponsored by an improvised American Society for Opera in English, Inc. To analyze the elements of so superlative a production is in a way to refute its purpose, its effect. Natalie Hall was the Marguerita. More accurately, the Marguerita was, just incidentally, one Natalie Hall; Mephistopheles was George Fleming Houston; the aged Faust, Patrick Kilkelley; the youthful Faust, Clifford Newdall; Valentin, Raymond Koch. No one of them showed a voice of any great dimensions, but each was vocally adequate and faithful to the tiniest dramatic...
Cousin Sonia. Marguerita Sylva has done a variety of things behind the footlights. She is probably best known for her intermittent activities with various opera companies, including the Metropolitan. She turns to straight acting every now and then. She happens to have turned to it now in a conventional farce from France, in which there are husbands and lovers, politeness and indiscretion, wit and a song or two for Mme. Sylva. She plays a bustling relative who hurtles in and carries off the lover for herself. All mildly amusing...