Word: operettas
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...public speaking at the Law School of St. John's College, Brooklyn. He is still shy, scholarly and a Dickens enthusiast but he does not take himself so seriously as he did at 13. The Tale of Two Cities, he decided not long ago, might make a good operetta if the plot were juggled around a bit. Charles Darnay might become a conventional villain, Sidney Carton could escape and go back to Lucy, sedate Miss Pross could become a comedienne called Prossie. . . . He proceeded haltingly to pick out tunes on the piano...
...those whose training in German has been neglected, or more probably for the purpose of enhancing the abundance of music that is included in the film, the producers have employed the simplest of plots. In brief, a celebrated Viennese composer who is working on the score of a new operetta has all the music completed except the customary waltz, which his producers demand, and which for some reason or another he is unable to create, despite the fact that the words have been already written by the librettists of the production...
...Moon (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Enlarged and changed, this operetta of the Broadway stage of year before last has been made into a vehicle for Metropolitan-trained Grace Moore and Lawrence Tibbett each of whom has done well separately in singing pictures. It is a plotty affair in which a Russian princess and a lieutenant make love against a background of soldiers thoroughly trained in quartet and ensemble work. Undaunted by the Presence of his superior officers, Tibbett pursues Miss Moore at a ball given in her honor by her fiance, the Governor, and in consequence is sent to an outpost...
...studio, the picture is satisfactory. It succeeds principally because of its music, on which Romberg and Hammerstein did not have to pass judgment since they had created it. Audiences will hum "In Vienna" and "We Make a Happy Pair." The story, full of reminiscences of three generations of operetta, is concerned with a cobbler's daughter who has two military lovers-a lieutenant and a drummer. Silliest idea: Vivienne Segal's frustrated love for the drummer reborn in her grandchild who falls in love with the drummer's grandchild who has made symphonic arrangements...
...Frenchmen have as nice an appreciation of British mentality as Andre Maurois. The few do not include Maurice Dekobra. His story of how a woman wrecked a Damon-&-Pythias friendship between two English officers is as flashily improbable as an operetta, but just as agreeable if you are in the mood...