Word: operetta
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Mischa Elman, violinist, sued Florenz Ziegfeld, producer, for release of the rights to publish Soldiers of Fortune, an operetta written by Elman in 1920 under a $100,000 contract with Mr. Ziegfeld...
Died. Adele Strauss, 70, relict of famed Viennese composer Johann Strauss ("Blue Danube" waltz, Die Fledermaus operetta); at Vienna; of pneumonia...
...there is evidence that he served several jail terms, committed at least one murder, suffered from venereal disease, and wrote, in underworld slang, the best French verse of his time. Not much of what scholars have found out about the real Villon is preserved in this handsomely romantic operetta based on his life. To music by-Rudolph Friml, in a story taken from an old best-seller by Justin Huntly McCarthy, Dennis King acts a Villon who becomes King of France for seven days, saves Paris from its enemies and wins the hand of his true love, Louis...
...Serenade. In 1897 a singing troupe called The Bostonians, headed by famed Soprano Alice Neilson, first presented this early operetta by the late Victor Herbert. The trifling story concerned the larks caused by the proximity of a monastery and a convent. In curious deference to modern religious scruples these institutions have now become a girls' school and a military barracks. The Herbert tunes ("I Love Thee, I Adore Thee," "Gaze on This Face So Noble") are still the best features of the entertainment, are nicely sung by Milton Aborn's revival company...
...likely to form exaggerated expectations, especially if the previous revivals in this group have not been seen. The vastness of modern musical plays are very apt to make one forget that George White and Florenz Ziegfeld are unique to this generation. Therefore, those who know of this operetta only through the famous waltz are going to be particularly impressed with the thinness of something they expected to be rich in every form of theatrical entertainment...