Word: operetta
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...formula under the title of "Student Prince", the Messrs. Lee and J. J. Shubert probably sat right down and cried. But note the moral. Did they give up? No, sir! Those plucky boys put new clothes on the saw horse, and came right back with "Princess Flavia", another pleasing operetta, done in a bigger and better...
...Pirates of Penzance. It is not sacrilege to speak of this as a Gilbert, Sullivan and Ames operetta. The Faithful who have attended all the Savoyard productions since the beginning, relate that always the chorus and principals behaved with a stolid propriety that left vivacity entirely to the impish lines and nimble melodies?until Winthrop Ames took hold. He stages Gilbert and Sullivan in the spirit of its verses and music. His characters skip, bounce, flit, dance. They put the show in motion, bring it to life. It is no longer the sly satire of Gilbert peeking through a tricky...
...title of the operetta has little or nothing to do with the show. Faint heart ne're won fair lady, says the heroine. And the hero shows her just how little faint hearted the son of a French general can be. The show is not going to sell on the merits of its love story, but on the strength of its supply of gaud and tinsel. It is one more example of American efficiency. The French and the Spanish have failed miserably and the Spanish have failed miserably to exhaust the possibilities of Morroco. It remained for the American producers...
...satisfy and Rifflan, standards. And their voices are excellent. But their enunciation is frightful. Of all the songs except those which the comedian talks not more than ten words get over the footlights. And no doubts that is just as well, if the lyrics are no better than jazz operetta demands...
Wild Rose. Arthur Hammerstein's annual operetta floats along on Rudolf Friml's melodies to merited success. Wild Rose and One Little Kingdom, especially, belong at the top of the day's popular music. The play, of course, is laid in a, mythical kingdom, wherefore the princess fights the inevitable fight to reconcile love and duty, with the usual sad results; her U. S. lover acquits himself as he might be expected to before a U. S. audience. Thin comedy is compensated for by Desiree Ellinger, Joseph Santley, and sprightly dancers. But above all, there...