Word: operetta
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After having had its name changed innumerable times the new Friml operetta has been chirstened "Annina" and the first performance will be given tomorrow night at the Shubert. At the head of a pretentious cast is the Viennese prima donna, Mme. Jeritza, famous for her voice and blonde hair. The story holds true to the tradition of light opera both in having its setting in the lazy and carefree Vienna of Francis Joseph, and in the Cinderella motiff which is the basis of the plot. With the singing of Jeritza, the undoubted musical ability of Mr. Friml, and the elaborate...
...Fiddle (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A Broadway success of two years ago, this musicomedy slides neatly into cinema. Set in Brussels and Paris, it is sleek, plausible, sentimental. An operetta composer (Ramon Novarro) meets, loves and teams up with a U. S. girl (Jeanette MacDonald) who also writes songs. A manager (Frank Morgan) likes Novarro's tunes but eyes the girl with more relish. He publishes her song, "The Night is Made for Love," the success of which enables MacDonald and Novarro to live in a glittering Paris flat. But Novarro, producing nothing himself, returns to Brussels in gloom. Miss...
Truth was that Mrs. Kreisler wanted to spend Christmas in their Berlin home, that Kreisler wanted to see about the London production of his operetta Sissy before he finished his U. S. tour. What made the know-it-alls' talk all the more absurd was a statement by several New York concert managers to the effect that their business is now on a sounder basis than it has been for two years...
...until, under the spell of Wagner, he wrote Verklärte Nacht, a romantic string sextet which is still played more than any of his other pieces. At 26 he started the Gurre-Lieder but for bread & butter's sake he had to put it aside and orchestrate operetta scores. Thirteen years later the Gurre-Lieder had a big success in Vienna. People were impressed by the enormous chorus. They liked the tender love motifs. But by the time Schönberg was on the way to becoming a popular composer he had lost his taste for conventional harmonies...
...Sing, by the same authors and with the same cast, will appear soon, to be called Let 'Em Eat Cake. Frederick Lonsdale's new play, Foreigners, will be given a production by Arch Selwyn. Maria Jeritza, a rich musical comedy personality, will be seen in the operetta Jerry. Dwight Wiman and Lawrence Langner are reviving Strauss's Die Fledermaus with Peggy Wood and Helen Ford singing the leads. George S. Kaufman, that perennial collaborator, and Alexander Woollcott have written a mystery play for Sam Harris. Philip Barry's new play, about the home life of some...