Word: operettas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. For the fourth time, Ferenc Molnar, most famed of contemporary Hungarian dramatists (Liliom, The Guardsman, The Swan, The Glass Slipper, Fashions For Men); to Lilli Darvas, famed Hungarian actress. His wives: Margit Vezei, daughter of writer-painter-publisher Pester Loyd (six years); Margit Vezei (remarried, redivorced); Sari Fredak, operetta star (married, separated immediately). He reputedly supported each of his wives in the style of mistress for some years before he married them...
...soon to tour Europe and the U. S. with his own opera company in the Barber of Seville, has a melody of his own running through his head. Last week in Detroit he hummed a few measures of it to pressmen; said that he would develop it into an operetta, take it on tour, perhaps, after the Barber...
...said, "as much of it now as we once had, but we certainly are beginning to see more light operas than we have for many years. I doubt that the Shuberts ever have made as much money in their history as they recently did with 'Blossom Time', and operetta built around the life and music of Franz Schuberts. "The Student Prince" is still another case in point. Light opera may or may not be back to stay. It will be the public's loss if it is not, but then I walk warily in the paths of prophecy...
...Vagabond King. There appeared last season a strong market for good operetta, well costumed and well sung. To serve this trade, an old romance, If I Were King, was dug up, dusted off and set to some particularly good music by Rudolph Friml. It is a story of France under Louis XI, when Francois Villon, poet and leader of the underworld, was presented with the throne for 24 hours. He loves a noble lady and he defies the force of hostile Burgundy encamped without the gates. The story seemed ideally suited to this type of entertainment; the characters generally suited...
...role is that of a dawdling cook, left behind in France after the armistice, who is bagged as the 14th guest at a gold-plate dinner of superstitious, rich Americans. He disrupts the party, in accepted operetta vein, with goofy behavior. Eventually he performs a rowdy dance with Ethel Shutta, the latter seeming, in looks and behavior, to be Nora Bayes stretched to the nth degree...