Word: operetta
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Katja. The ordeal whereby for the sake of a nation, royalty submits to degrading incognito, is much met in Shubert operetta. In Katja, however, there is more than enough humor and music to relieve the redundancy of thought. Having already charmed the British, it brings to this civilization "Leander", a song that needs no comment because everyone will soon know it by heart; Doris Patston, a pert lass who captivates; Jack Sheehan, comedian, who exchanges an honest laugh for every minute of the audience's attention; Lilian Davies, prima donna, and Allan Prior, tenor, who can sing...
Strenuous Nights. Her Majesty attended the theatre nightly, saw Felix, Le Dictateur, La Prisonniere (now in Manhattan as The Captive), Ciboulette (operetta), and the Douglas Fairbanks cinema, Black Pirate...
...more serious hours the operetta is heavily sentimental and full of bad melodrama. By the end of the first act, the shy, unworldly prince is gazing moonily at Kathie--whereupon they both exhale noisly. By the end of the second act, the heir of Karlsberg is screaming in a tenor voice, "O God! I won't--I can't go home!" But he does. Forty minutes later he screams even louder, "O God! I'm trapped--I'm caught--ALONE!" It is not clear whether his preference for the little lady back in Heidleberg is based on the fact that...
...Waltz Dream. Another German film of rare and easy excellence has been made from Oscar Straus' operetta. Simplicity and graceful common sense have replaced the million dollar dowdiness that would have suffused the film if made in almost any U. S. studio. The story is slight, telling of a frosty Princess and her not particularly interested Prince consort. The latter prefers a blonde from a beer garden. None of the actors are notable here. All of them in their strange Teutonic way are excellent...
Married. For the fourth time, Ferenc Molnar, most famed of contemporary Hungarian dramatists (Liliom, The Guardsman, The Swan, The Glass Slipper, Fashions For Men); to Lilli Darvas, famed Hungarian actress. His wives: Margit Vezei, daughter of writer-painter-publisher Pester Loyd (six years); Margit Vezei (remarried, redivorced); Sari Fredak, operetta star (married, separated immediately). He reputedly supported each of his wives in the style of mistress for some years before he married them...