Word: operetta
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...third rate operetta, "Carousel" is bad enough, but as a mystic fantasy with songs it is absurd and over-sentimental...
...More an operetta than a musicomedy in treatment, The Firebrand of Florence largely dispenses with dance routines, specialty numbers, personalities (only nimble Melville Cooper as the nitwitted Duke of Florence makes himself felt...
Richard T. ("Dick") Frankensteen pudgy vice president of the C.I.O.'s potent United Automobile Workers, all-out New Deal orator, announced that he had $65,000 backing for a light opera called Gypsy Moon (book and lyrics by Dick Frankensteen). Said he: "The operetta has no connection with the U.A.W.-C.I.O. Ever since I was in college, I've had a desire to produce a stage show...
Franz Lehar, venerable (74), Hungarian-born Viennese operetta king, composer of Adolf Hitler's favorite operetta, The Merry Widow (1905), was reported under "house arrest" in his Vienna home. Aryan Lehar's only other reported brush with the Nazis occurred three years ago when he refused to obey Nazi orders to leave his Jewish wife...
...gang: talking over his experiences in Spain with Ernest Hemingway or their experiences anywhere with Westbrook Pegler, Peter Arno, Damon Runyon, Steve Hannegan, John O'Hara; dancing at El Morocco with Dan Topping and Shipwreck Kelly; dashing out to the country to help Deems Taylor compose a new operetta. Between times there were play or ballet or opera openings with the William Rhinelander Stewarts, the Orson Munns, Prince Serge Obolensky, the Averell Harrimans, Sonny Whitney. Once a weekend at San Simeon lasted six weeks because the old man could not bear to let her go. From...