Word: operettas
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...Merry Widow (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the third and by far the best cinema version of Franz Lehar's famed operetta. The first was a two-reel monstrosity in which the late Alma Rubens and Wallace Reid performed in 1912. In 1925 Erich von Stroheim directed Mae Murray and John Gilbert in the second. Cinemaddicts who have seen all three are likely to find the current version, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, as far superior to the second as the second was to the first. Only the most captious critics could find any fault with a picture which fairly entranced...
...Stroheim Merry Widow, like the original operetta, concerned a Prince Danilo. The real Prince Danilo of Montenegro sued Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for libel, collected $4,000 in a Paris court. Well aware that 63-year-old Prince Danilo, living modestly near Nice, must have pricked up his ears when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid Princess Youssoupov $250,000 & costs for libelously dipping into the history of Russia and Rasputin (TIME, March 12; Aug. 20), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer took no chances with this new version of The Merry Widow. In addition to demoting the Prince to a Captain, they were careful...
Unlike most importations, Gaumont-British's version of the comic operetta which ran at His Majesty's Theatre in London from 1915 to 1920, in Manhattan from 1917 to 1919, is at least intelligible to U. S. cinemaddicts. Its actors muffle their accents, sing with no more affectation than U. S. musicomedy performers. Prepared without either the gross exaggerations of a DeMille or the onyx convolutions of a Busby Berkeley, Chu Chin Chow is elaborate without being absurd. It relates the story of Ali Baba (George Robey) and the 40 thieves, exhibits the misfortunes which overtake the head...
Members of the Glee Club will have a chance to indulge their taste for gesticulation and bright clothes when they take part in the production of the Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta "Patience" next spring...
...spring the Orchestra, together with the Glee Club, the Wellesley Orchestra, the Wellesley Choir, and the Barnswallows, Wellesley's dramatic club, will give the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "Pattence, or Bunthorne's Bride...