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...Most prominent of his followers were Vienna's Johann Strauss (Die Fledtrmaus), Oscar Straus (The Chocolate Soldier, and Franz Lehár (The Merry Widow) Strongly influenced also were England' s Gilbert & Sullivan (Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, etc.), Irish-American Victor Herbert (The Red Mill, Naughty Marietta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Operetta's Father | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...pretty good, Proven Pictures' president says. They go for historical pictures, clean comedy, and musicals; they frown on Westerns, G-man pictures, and violent death in any from. Their favorite comedians are the Ritzes; for sheer drama they prefer Paul Muni and Barbara Stanwyck. But Jeanette MacDonald's "Naughty Marietta" holds the record; it has come back fifteen times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PROVEN PICTURES" | 3/26/1938 | See Source »

Closest election of all was the 14-man Junior Album competition. Those elected were Robert M. Bunker, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, with 223 votes, Richard H. Sullivan, of Marietta, Ohio, with 215, James Tobin, of Champaign, Illinois, with 179, Robert E. L. Strider, 2d, of Wheeling, West Virginia, with 165, and Harold M. Curtiss, Jr., of Milford, with 164. Between the fourth and the seventh man in the 1939 race there was a margin of just five votes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALLEN, STRUCK, DAMPEER WIN | 3/3/1938 | See Source »

Victor over the ten Harvard Undergraduate "Indians" who staged an "attack" early in its journey, the Caravan has evidently met its match in the elements. Scheduled to arrive in Marietta, Ohio, on April 7, it has failed to reply to all telegraphic and telephone messages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OX-TEAM CARAVAN IS FEARED SCALPED; LOST IN PENN. MTS. | 1/14/1938 | See Source »

...will also see the same Nelson Eddy, whose voice thrilled you in "Rose Marie" or "Naughty Marietta", and who still acts like a wooden soldier. But he can be forgiven for his acting, for no one could act the part that he was given. Mr. Eddy, however good his voice may be, is not fitted to be a cadet. And besides this, they have taken Miss MacDonald away from Mr. Eddy and, instead, have given him Eleanor Powell, who shows a complete inability to add anything. Miss Powell dances down a lot of drums in a pair of black stockings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/11/1938 | See Source »

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