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...love him, works himself up into such a state that he takes a pistol to her. All this comes out of an unpublished novel by Wallace Smith and Erich von Stroheim who used to go around frightening virgins out of their wits on the silent screen. On the operetta stage it somehow fails to click. A possible explanation lies in the choice of Walter Slezak, whose big act is chubby artlessness, to play the part of the psychiatrist. Mr. Slezak was the amiable bumpkin in Music in the Air. And most spectators will find it hard to understand why such...
Jubilee (words & music by Moss Hart & Cole Porter; Sam Harris & Max Gordon, producers) was facetiously described by its creators during rehearsals as a cross between The Merry Widow and As Thousands Cheer. In common with the former, it is laid in a fabulous kingdom found only in operetta. But in comparison with the latter, about the best that can be said is that the same man wrote both books. Jubilee chiefly satisfies the eye. In design and color, the costumery by Irene Sharaff & Connie Depinna probably surpasses anything so far seen on Broadway. But when Jubilee tries to please...
Paris in Spring (Paramount). The current operetta cycle has developed a formula of its own, to which the nudity and wisecracks, the crooned syncopation and eager pace of last year's musicals would be an unthinkable violation. Paris in Spring handsomely exhibits all the proper appointments in the manner of the day: no gags, no chorus, no comic. Sprightliness is the keynote of the dialog. Songwriters Harry Revel and Mack Gordon, with a fetching title song and probably the year's best tango (Bonjour, Mam'selle), are continental in chunks, and Mary Ellis, though she frequently sings...
Last week for the 17th "Muny" opening there were 10,000 ardent spectators, a new producer, a new operetta and a new lighting system. The new producer was Broadway's smart Laurence Schwab (Good News, New Moon), successor to J. J. Shubert who has taken the "Muny" idea to Navin Field, Detroit. The new operetta was Teresina, a confection by Vienna's old Oscar Straus (Chocolate Soldier). At a cost of $25,000 two giant towers had been built to flank the big revolving stage, flood it with light, support an over-head bridge which provides more lights...
Assisted by 16 Harvard undergraduates, a group selected from the musical and dramatic societies at Wellesley College will stage the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "Princess Ida," tomorrow and Saturday at 8 o'clock in Alumnae Hall, Wellesley. Ten men from M.I.T. will also take part in the production...