Word: operetta
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...Fiddle," sweet little romance starring Ramon Novarro and the perennially young Jeanette McDonald. Ramon and Jeanette are student musicians in Paris. Jeanette has money and Ramon has talent, which facts interfere with the smoothness of the course of true love. He wants to put over his operetta in order to make some money before he marries her. She interprets his desire as selfishness and lack of interest in her, and consequently finds herself another fiance, a gentleman who has the money and influence to enable her to pursue a musical career of her own. Ramon starts...
Shubert--"The Moon Rises". Shubert presents a conventional operetta in a very elaborate setting. Expensive assistance of glamorous-from-Paris heroine may please...
After last week's unusually excellent bill, the Fine Arts Theatre this week lapses into mediocrity. The featured picture, Franz Lehar's operetta "Friederike," is a story centering about the love of Wolfgang von Goethe for the country lass Friederike. Though the music is delightful and the photography well above the average, the film suffers from the usual ill of operettas, an overdose of sentimentality. The love of Wolfgang and Friederike was not one of heroic proportions, and throughout one has the conviction that Goethe's career is more vital to him than Friederike's love, a belief which...
...Shuberts spent a great deal of money on a Franz Lehar operetta, entitled "The Moon Rises," and succeeded in making it one of the most elaborately tedious shows of the year. With the expensive assistance of two comedians, two specialty dancers, one tall-dark-handsome-gypsy hero, one glamorous-from-Paris heroine, and a large chorus, they attempted to reproduce the atmosphere which has made so many of their past ventures successful. Unfortunately, the day of Mr. Franz Lehar seems to be over. Conventional tunes, unfunny lines, a complicated and ill-written plot combine to make "The Moon Rises" seem...
...story centers around the life of the Waltz King, and more particularly with the creation of one of his most famous operas, "Die Fliedermaus." In unaffected and charming manner the director has caught the gayety of pre-war Vienna, and has woven into the operetta the love and laughter and music of those carefree days...