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Also on display is his famous Italian operetta. "II Pesceballo", which was written in 1862 and which has a very interesting history. It is based upon the familiar college song of former times, "The Lay of One Fishball." His purpose in writing it was to have it sung as a public entertainment, the proceeds to be used for helping the loyalists of eastern Tennessee who had been impoverished by the ravages of the Civil War. Professor Child submitted his Italian verses to James Russell Lowell '38 for revision. Lowell at once "dashed off" an English version, and the thing...
They sat through what is certainly one of the most expensive preparations ever put up, a luxurious operetta about Africa. Dawn, high priestess of native religion, loves an heroic Englishman. Unhappily she is in the power of a gigantic local Negro, planning to elope with her. African life seems darkest just before Dawn discovers she is white; may marry as she, and the audience, prefer. Louise Hunter was wheedled away from the Manhattan Opera House to sing this part and sing it she does as parts are seldom sung in operetta. Her assistants are eminently vocal and the surroundings dressed...
...very fact that the reviewer noticed these inconsistencies, some of which are to be expected in an historical operetta, is in itself a criticism of the show, for the spirit of the piece is not put across and the spectator becomes irritatingly aware of the flaws...
...Sudermann, and manages to remain picturesquely soporific for a long evening. Janet Gaynor (seen in Seventh Heaven) contributes a pathetic beauty to the role of the girl-wife. The Student Prince has had other incarnations. First it was the play Old Heidelberg, in which Richard Mansfield appeared; then an operetta, produced by the Shuberts. Now it is a film in which Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer are directed by Ernst Lubitsch, whom most people recognize as the foremost master of cinema comedy and point to as a particularly baffling example of how a man can be light and Teutonic...
Ruddigore. With his painstaking productions of lolanthe and The Pirates of Penzance, Winthrop Ames showed Manhattan how Gilbert & Sullivan ought to be staged. Producer Lawrence J. Anhalt, unmindful of the lesson, has made a sluggish, tasteless revival of this operetta. An unfortunate evening is partly redeemed by Craig Campbell as Richard Dauntless, by William Danforth and Herbert Waterous as two of the multitudinous Sir Murgatroyds...