Word: operetta
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Before long, his keen and roving eye for the aesthetic beauty of the female figure caused him to enlarge the focus of his attention. He produced a dignified operetta called The Red Feather and another more sprightly beauty show called Mile, Fifi. His first wife was Anna Held, who starred in this show, became famous for singing "I Can't Make My Eyes Behave," and who had the narrowest waistline in the U. S. at a time when such details commanded favorable notice...
...WARNING: him isn't a comedy or a tragedy or a farce or a melodrama or a revue or an operetta or a moving picture or any other convenient excuse for 'going to the theatre'-in fact, it's a PLAY, so let it PLAY; and because you are here, let it PLAY with you. Let it dart off and beckon to you from the distance, let it tiptoe back and snap its fingers under your nose, let it sweep up at you from below or pounce down on you from above, let it creep cautiously...
...will notice that the plot of nearly every musical comedy this year has a youthful appeal. This year producers have tried to combine all these qualities, together with good comedy, and as a result only three musical comedies have failed in New York this season, while the drama, operetta, and revue have not had any remarkable success...
...operetta.*The Three Musketeers, a Florenz Ziegfeld operetta, has all the impedimenta of its kind; there are frequent pretty songs, enormous numbers of beautiful girls with too many clothes on, flocks of toe dancers who caper around the stage in wide skirts and bonnets. Equipped with dusters, they would look as if they had just jumped out of a can of glorified Dutch Cleanser. There is also a plot about Messrs. D'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos; they are serving the King of France to the best of their ability and making love to ladies. D'Artagnan himself...
...place for a sane man. Far be it from this reviewer to be so dogmatic as that. There are undoubtedly those who will think "Countess Maritza" is just great, but to the intelligent part of the population, that part at any rate which has been to an operetta, say, just once before, let these words be a warning