Word: operetta
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...Student Prince" is that four-star operetta. The music, by Sigmund Romberg, is excellent. The plot and the dialogue, except for a few insignificant lapses by Dorothy Donnelly, are amusing. The cast, considering the apparent shortage of males, is remarkable for its full chorus and, while not the best over assembled to perform the musical, does justice...
Everett Marshall's powerful baritone, used to the role of Dr. Engel, the Prince's tutor when he goes to Heidelburg for one year of freedom before becoming King, dominates the stage the few times he appears on it; he gives a fine rendition of the operetta's them, "Golden Days;" but a little less repetition of it in the beginning would have made the song more moving near the end when it reminds the Prince, who has become King of his days as a student...
...Desert Song (Warner) lingers melodiously on from the days (1926-27) when it was a Broadway operetta and the fractious Riffs were all that most people knew about in North Africa. It tries hard to be immediately prewar, with cracks about Vichy and a Nazi plot to put a rail road across the Sahara to Dakar. But it remains an amusingly archaic, Technicolored story about an indolent U.S. café-pianist (Dennis Morgan) and a Riffhounding French officer (Bruce Cabot), who are rivals for a French songstress (Irene Manning). This triangle is menaced by El Khobar, masked leader...
...Merry Widow. Lehar's waltz-drenched operetta revived with opulence and style (TIME...
...Meiner Seelen Wohner," and "Wachetauf, Ruft Uns die Stimme." This will be followed by "Salvation Belongeth to Our God," a chant by the Russian sacred composer Tchesnikoff. By sharp contrast, the Glee Club will continue with "Schnelder's Band" by A. J. Mundy, closing with a group of two operetta favorites, "Stout Hearted Men" from Sigmund Romberg's "New Moon," and "Old Man River," Jerome Kern's classic from "Show Boat...