Word: operettas
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...Annunzio wrote and directed Cabria. But since 1916 native Italian cinemas have deteriorated. Premier Mussolini has his private theatre, equipped for talkies. For a while he banned all cinemas in foreign tongues. Later he changed this edict, permitting foreign talk if the picture was musical comedy or operetta...
...write a burlesque comic opera and settled down to hammer out the sort of entertainment which used to be so admirably handled by Johann Strauss and Franz Lehar but whose present day imitations are so consistently lustreless. That Mr. Sturges originally intended to poke fun at oldtime operetta is evident in his choice of name for his mythical kingdom-Magnesia. Very lamely some of his characters are dubbed Lieutenant Schpitzelberger, Baron von Sprudelwasser. The only comic intention of the librettist which comes off is his making the prime minister a fairly funny Bronx Jew. In general, however, The Well...
...CALL OF THE FLESH-Just operetta with a concert tenor (Ramon Novarro) but hinting future grand opera for the cinema...
...journalist, now editor, had occasion to listen to the premiere of an operetta which his friend the composer had written. Surprised and delighted was he to discover that the melody written on the daycoach was the hit of the show, called "Kiss Me Again." It is still a good song. Its composer, Victor Herbert, is dead. But the lady who first introduced it, Fritzi Scheff (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929), still sings it. Last winter she took the production from which the song came-Mille. Modiste-on tour. And the journalist is still well and happy. He is General Manager Kent...
...course of the operetta has its normal ups and downs until the beginning of Act II, when all of a sudden blond, curly-headed Mr. Robertson starts a rough & tumble fight with Mr. Clements over the favors of Miss Terry. This event helps to differentiate Nina Rosa from its operatic contemporaries. It is really a swashbuckling, galvanated musical drama, of the sort which appeals to a faintly sadistic expectancy on the part of its spectators...