Word: maritza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Americana, lolanthe, Katja, Countess Maritza, Scandals, Queen High, Criss Cross...
...Countess Maritza. Ever since The Student Prince, the Shuberts have been putting royalty to music with golden success. Although long awaited, the youngest in line, The Countess Maritza, disclosed nothing more sensational than a former Metropolitan prima donna of human dimensions. Indeed, shapely Yvonne D'Arle's skipping and gestures are more suggestive of the Shubert girl than the Gatti-Casazza stalwart. Had she injected less grand opera bravura into her lyric cadenzas, she might have proved even more effective...
...story: a proud nobleman forced to labor as servant to a haughty countess conquers and is conquered in love. After all these years and years of nobility in difficult incognito, those who still relish such fare will find the Countess Maritza thoroughly edifying, highly seasoned with color and music, harmoniously staged. The same romantically inclined folk will overlook, in the general glamor, a turbulent succession of flat puns and desperate buffoonery. They will even forgive the unfortunate costume foisted upon handsome Songster Walter Woolf in the third act. They will thrill to the tinsel, to the song "Play "Gypsies...
...Turkey to receive Karagach (junction suburb of Adrianople, across the river Maritza) and the railway line from Luli Gurgas, on the Bulgarian Frontier, to Karagach. This means shifting the Turko-Greek boundary in Thrace further west...