Word: operetta
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...Thee I Sing, Flying Colors, Take a Chance and Gay Divorce. He lent his expert touch to George Gershwin's Pardon My English which opened last week in Philadelphia; to Walk a Little Faster in which Beatrice Lillie opened this week; to Sissy, Fritz Kreisler's operetta opening this month in Vienna. Bennett's jobs are piled high ahead. He is collaborating with Critic Robert A. Simon of The New Yorker on an opera. Philip Barry is having him write a musical background for a new play. Kreisler and Iturbi have commissioned him to write them concertos...
...Club, under the direction of J. M. Bradley '33, will play the "Twelfth Street Rag," "Under the Double Eagle," and "At a Georgia Camp Meeting." The Vocal Club, under the leadership of S. H. Stackpole '33, will present "Going Home," "Johnny Harvard," "Old Heidelberg," and the finale from the operetta "The Gondoliers." The Gold Coast Orchestra with J. L. Hutter '33 leading will play a Victor Herbert medley, a medley from "Show Boat" and "Mood Indigo" and "Black and Tan Fantasy." This orchestra will play for dancing afterwards. The Mandolin Club will also play and present specialty numbers and vaudeville...
...exquisite frieze of melody against the background of Bavaria, that good clean land with a song in its throat. The tale Librettist Hammerstein has to tell variously interrupts or suddenly pounces upon or absentmindedly neglects the tunes which flow continuously from Composer Kern's brimming music box. Neither operetta, musicomedy nor revue, Music in the Air is billed simply as "a musical adventure." Scenes are labeled Leit Motif, Etudes, Pastoral, Impromptu, Sonata...
...century has passed. It is 1930 in Vienna; but now as of old, when friends gather and men make merry, there is dancing and singing to Schubert's song. Now a new Schubert sits at the open casement. It is Toni Hofer, writing the last measures of an operetta. On the piano, lilting melodies lie in manuscript, but the one crowning air will not come. The play is dead without a dance, a Viennese waltz to give it soul...
...piano the triumphant waltz-melody of "Zwei Herzen" comes to Toni while the arms of an unknown girl are resting on his shoulder. When he has played and she has danced to his playing, she slips away. Without her, Toni cannot remember a bar of his waltz. The operetta is about to fall for want of it. But love finds out the way to the fraulein's heart, and hers joins with his to recall his "Zwei Herzen...