Word: operettas
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...libretto is itself a gypsy, decked out in every tarnished bit of satin and velvet in the operetta ragbag-Romany life, dukes, marquises, matinee idols, ballet dancers, imposture, revenge-and Paree. None of this has either a true romantic glow or a sly satiric glitter. The gypsy heroine who aches to be a lady (Helena Bliss) soon has all the more eligible tenors in the cast at her feet-but returns in the end to Sandor, her rough gypsy mate. For though Sandor may lack pelf and polish, he has the sock tune in the show, that great old Victor...
Song for God. When he was eight years old Benjamin Britten revealed his unorthodox musical behavior by writing an angry song to be sung by God. He wrote a U.S. operetta named Paul Bunyan which got no place. At Tanglewood he glumly watched rehearsals wearing a pearl-grey jacket, a yellow tie and strap sandals...
...Naughty Marietta" (Mon. 10 p.m., CBJ5). The Screen Guild players condense Victor Herbert's operetta into half an hour, starring Allan Jones and Irene Manning...
...operetta-goers, the word for the Balkans had been "romantic'': in Marsovia, the Merry Widow's imaginary country, the people waltzed in boots and dainty slippers, drank plum brandy and intrigued their way through ballrooms and bedrooms. To diplomats, the word had been "obscure": ephemeral dynasties, parvenu politicians and illiterate courtesans played at running governments. To newspaper readers, the word was "confusing": barely pronounceable, barely distinguishable lands constantly seemed to be staging wars, revolutions and political assassinations for reasons too involved for correspondents to explain...
...from Author Isherwood's knowledge of Hollywood, Continental Europe and Britain-in fact, he presents himself as one of Prater Violet's principal characters. Grim skeleton of his novel-as well as its basic irony-is the filming by British Imperial Bulldog Pictures of a tear-jerker operetta about old Vienna named "Prater Violet"-just on the eve of Dictator Dollfuss' putsch to power. For the script of Prater Violet, Bulldog's President Chatsworth hires Christopher Isherwood, who knows Berlin ("Berlin ['s] . . . pretty much the same kind of setup [as Vienna...