Word: operetta
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Strauss: Viennese Music (Vienna Choi Boys; Victor, 8 sides). Choral arrangements of waltzes, operetta songs, a polka a march; by three Strausses; amusingly chirruped by Vienna's touring youngsters...
Since 1930, when he had his first exhibition in Paris, Grosser has enjoyed a quiet -and growing-reputation in Europe, almost none in the U. S., where he is known, if at all, as a collaborator with his old friend, Composer Virgil Thomson, on the Gertrude Stein operetta, Four Saints m Three Acts. Yet Maurice Grosser's painting belongs to a school which is just what the doctor ordered for critics who carry on indiscriminately about "modernism" in art (see p. 36). Grosser owes nothing to conventional impulses yet is a firmly "representational," sensitive draftsman. His particular passion, however...
...Manhattan last week the American Lyric Theatre entered the second week of its debutante season. First week, it had launched the folksy opera, The Devil and Daniel Webster, by Douglas Moore and Stephen Vincent Benet. This it followed with an operetta based upon Stephen Foster tunes, Susanna Don't You Cry, which, for all its musical charm and its flashy mounting by Robert Edmond Jones, had a plot which died of Southern molassitude. The Lyric Theatre next put on an evening of dancing by Lincoln Kirstein's Ballet Caravan-an uninspired Air and Variations to music by Bach...
...pure Harlem-comes the first Mikado in cinema. Made in England's Pinewood Studios last year by Director Victor Schertzinger and a quorum of first-string members of London's famed D'Oyly1"Carte Company, the screen version of the world's most famed operetta is a full-length, Technicolor facsimile of the original...
Blossom Time, a perennial, was back on Broadway for the first time since 1931. The old-fashioned operetta, full of hideous buffoonery, has a score-based on some of Franz Schubert's loveliest melodies-as appealing as ever...