Word: operettas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Wild Rose. Arthur Hammerstein's annual operetta floats along on Rudolf Friml's melodies to merited success. Wild Rose and One Little Kingdom, especially, belong at the top of the day's popular music. The play, of course, is laid in a, mythical kingdom, wherefore the princess fights the inevitable fight to reconcile love and duty, with the usual sad results; her U. S. lover acquits himself as he might be expected to before a U. S. audience. Thin comedy is compensated for by Desiree Ellinger, Joseph Santley, and sprightly dancers. But above all, there...
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...