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Word: operettas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made over for Maurice Chevalier. A captain of the Guards who marries a Queen finds that his share in the government of Sylvania is limited to what he can do in a boudoir. It is a boldly amorous, decorative, at times amusing combination of drawing-room farce and Balkan operetta. Chevalier does well with songs that would be dull under less skillful handling. Director Ernst Lubitsch has arranged handsome scenes? marching grenadiers, palaces hung with cascades of stairs, a royal wedding in which flowers, lace and plumes seem blown into the set from pealing organ stops and braying horns. Neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard singers will give "Drake's Drum" by Coleridge-Taylor, "Marching", by Brahms, and choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Ruddigore". The Harvard Mandolin Club will play selections from "Pinafore", another Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and the Brahms Waltz in A Major. The Banjo Club will offer two Russian folk songs, "Fireflies", and "At Father's Door", and Harvard football songs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB IN CONCERT WITH YALE VOCALISTS | 11/22/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard Mandolin Club will offer selections from "Pinafore", another Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and the Brahms' Waltz in A Major. Then the Harvard singers will offer two Russian folk songs, "Fireflies", and "At Father's Door", and Harvard football songs, closing with "Bright College Years" and "Fair Harvard", sung with the Yale Glee Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARIED PROGRAM READY FOR ELI GAME CONCERT | 11/19/1929 | See Source »

...first songs of the Harvard Glee Club will be "Drake's Drum", by Coleridge-Taylor, "Marching", by Brahms, and choruses from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "Ruddigore". After the intermission the Yale Glee Club will be heard again, in three negro spirituals, "Place My Feet on Higher Ground", "Keep In The Middle Of The Road", and "The Battle Of Jericho...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARIED PROGRAM READY FOR ELI GAME CONCERT | 11/19/1929 | See Source »

Keith's--"Rio Rita", all-talking, singing, dancing movie of Ziegfeld's operetta of the same name, with Bebe Daniels and John Boles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

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