Word: operettas
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Nothing like it had ever happened to a Sigmund Romberg operetta before. In Detroit, the Civic Light Opera Association decided that Romberg's My Maryland needed a bright boy to jive it up a little-and they knew just the right boy to do it. Frank ("Sugar Chile") Robinson, a young Negro (who is eight according to his father, eleven according to school records), is a piano-playing natural...
...Harry B. Smith & Fred De Gresac, with revisions by John Cecil Holm; music & lyrics by Victor Herbert & Robert B. Smith; produced by Paula Stone & Michael Sloane) emerges after 33 years as a vehicle-a sort of quaint old hearse-for Bobby Clark. It belongs to the Balkan Age of operetta, when princes wooed village maids who eventually turned out to be princesses in disguise, and the most personal and private crises were resolved in the village square...
...Manhattan, lean, bemonocled Visitor Sax Rohmer, who had been chiefly concerned with Fu Manchu for the past 30 years, listened with professional interest to Soprano Mimi Benzell. She would sing in a new operetta, Chinese Nightingale-new book & lyrics by Sax Rohmer. The show would open in London, but Briton
Franz Lehar, reported the Paris press, was at his villa in the Austrian Tyrol, recovering from an eye operation, and working on his 34th operetta...
...rehearsal, the operetta opened in the office of Button, Burton, Bitten and Muchinfuss, where Philmore Updyke Muchinfuss ("known in the trade as old P.U.") was holding a staff conference. The advertising agency needed a sponsor...