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...passed since he wrote High Jinks. "Sweet Fool" is a ballad worthy of place among modern Schmalzmusik. But the libretto with its creaky structure belongs to the bygone era of celluloid collars and beehive police helmets. In surrendering her role to Natalie Hall, Mme Jeritza escaped being a Venetian noblewoman of 1934 who thinks better of spurning a commoner when, in a flashback, she impersonates her own fisher maiden ancestor in 1770 wooing and winning the Duke of Orsano. She also escaped having the following appeal addressed to her: "Ah, Marchesa, wouldn't it be divine if we both...
...hiding place of treasure, but he does not take them seriously until a credulous banker offers to lend him money on the security of the unfound trove. Meantime. The O'Flynn has enlisted on the side of William of Orange, only to fall in love with a noblewoman. Lady Benedette Mount-Michael (Lucy Monroe), whose sympathies are with' James. The gallant Irishman thereupon changes sides...
Mackerel Skies (by John Haggart; George Bushar and John Tuerk, producers). What has happened before the play begins: Elsa (Violet Kemble Cooper), hot-blooded Austrian noblewoman, marries a prince, has a daughter (Carol Stone) by a peasant (Tom Powers), exhausts the prince's fortune in pursuit of a singing career, deserts prince & peasant to marry a Manhattan broker, fails dismally as a diva. What happens during the play: Grown to adolescence, the daughter displays a voice inherited not from her noble mother but from her peasant father who reappears as a wheat tycoon to oppose Elsa's jealous...
...wedded to a righteous hypocrite who has been appointed Crime Commissioner of a metropolitan suburb. Having pitched their drama in an urbane setting, Playwrights Golding & Dickey feel free to introduce all the standard elements of bogus stage high life-a crafty butler, a drunken polo player, an. unscrupulous Spanish noblewoman, a millionaire and his wife, a smart lawyer who sympathizes with Actress MacKellar. The story gets under way when the rich neighbors are robbed of their jewelry. Miss MacKellar catches a smooth young man with the valuables in his possession, fancies him, internes him in her bedroom until, two acts...
IDYLL'S END-Claude Anet-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). On a morning in January, 1889, in a shooting lodge at Mayerling, Austria, the bodies of Crown Prince Rudolph, heir to the great Dual Monarchy, and Marie Vetsera, pretty young noblewoman, were found by horrified attendants. Since then controversy has raged: 1) whether they were both killed (by order of Emperor Francis Joseph); 2) whether they died voluntarily in a suicide pact. Author Claude Anet, and many another, thinks Rudolph shot Marie, then himself. Rudolph, as Author Anet shows him to us, was intelligent, able, liberal-minded. But he was married...