Word: metaxa
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...Fiddle is a tuneful concert by Jerome Kern which frames a little love story by Librettist Otto Har-bach. The scene, a bit on the lush side and pleasingly so, is laid in Brussels and Louvain' where Miss Bettina Hall and George S. Metaxa, two musicians, alternately fall in & out of each other's arms until the final curtain...
Unhappily, neither Miss Hall nor Mr. Metaxa have very attractive voices. Miss Hall belongs to that school of musicomedy prima donnas which signifies its charm and purity by assuming too, too graceful postures, willowing all over the stage. Most of the excellent Kern melodies seem to be thrown away in the pit as incidental music, but there are two numbers-"She Didn't say 'Yes'" and "One Moment Alone"-which are memorable...