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...story is based on the life of the composer Offenbach and his attachment for the Empress Eugenie. On this framework, a generous interpolation of fancy and invention has been hung. As narrative, the production is naturally negligible; it develops some humor and immense opportunity for scenery and singing. Taste and dollars have made the sets just about the most gorgeous series of pictorial effects in town. An able vocal assembly, headed by Dorothy Francis, swings melodiously through a score based on the best works of the play-hero Offenbach...
...March Sousa Up the Street Morse Harvard Banjo Club Intermission 7. Goin' Home Dvorak The Wreck of the Julie Plante O'Hara Dartmouth Glee Club 8. Specialty Act Harvard Instrumental Club Orchestra 9. Suabian Folk Song harmonized by Brahms Football Songs Harvard Glee Club 10. Marche Militaire Schubert Barcarolle Offenbach Dartmouth Mandolin Club 11. Dartmouth Song Segur Dartmouth Glee Club Fair Harvard words by Gilman Harvard Glee Club
Other productions will include Bizet's Pearl Fishers, Montemezzi's Love of Three Kings, Debussy's Pélleas et Mélisande, Auber's Fra Diavolo, Meyerbeer's Prophet, Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. Entirely new stage sets have been built for several of these. Among the singers there will appear Mary Garden (of course), Louise Homer, Florence Macbeth, Edith Mason, Charles Hackett, Feodor Chaliapin...
Orpheus ? Offenbach's operatic comedy will be the massive contribution of German Max Reinhardt to the season's list. Herr Reinhardt will later produce Schnitzler's Dream Play...
...program for the Symphony "Pops" Concert tonight will be as follows; Overture to "The Beautiful Galatea" Suppe Waltz, "1001 Nights" Strauss Furlana from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Fantasia, "Iris" Mascagni Ballet Suite, "Syivia" Delibes Spanish Dance, "Panaderos" Glabounov Romance Rimsky-Korsakov Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner Selection, "The Tales of Hoffmann" Offenbach Deep River Burleigh-Jacchia "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa