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...SlGMUND ROMBERG...
...public-spirited citizens under municipal patronage, presents its twelve-week al fresco repertoire of light opera and operetta, locally called "Muny Opera." One night last week, St. Louis playgoers motored, taxied or bussed into Forest Park to witness the premiere of the "Muny Opera's" twelfth season-Sigmund Romberg's Nina Rosa, which recently had its debut in Chicago. Observers at rehearsals beheld the new production manager, Milton I. Shubert, nephew of famed Producers Lee & Jake Shubert of Manhattan, trotting nervously about the wide stage, castigating carpenters, bellowing at ballerinas. A characteristic Shubert addition...
Dressed in the magnificent rags of theatrical insurgence, surrounded by beautiful girls and elaborate scenery, yodeling a plea for stout-hearted men made tuneful by Sigmund Romberg, Robert (Robert Halliday) and his assistant (William O'Neal) organize their golden expedition. Robert is not content with merely this adventure; in making pretty passes at the hand of a charming aristocrat, he is arrested for treason. On the way to France where Robert is to be punished, the heroine-aristocrat helps to save him and put him in command of the boat on which he was a prisoner. The boat then...
Turning to the subject of "Rosalie," the glorifler extraordinary of American femininity remarked that the attempt had been made to combine two types of music; those of George Gershwin and Sigmund Romberg, each extremely successful in itself. "They make great variety and a good combination," he continued. "Another innovation is that the story is based on reality. I have found out that the American public appreciates a sensible plot more than the general blurb we used to present years ago. That whole West Point affair was true, you know. We therefore thought the scenery should be real too. The music...
...Miss Hampton, the plot and the jokes are not really important. The things that matter are the music by Sigmund Romberg,† and the ensemble singing. These factors measure up to the most rigorous standard of recent large scale, light opera in the Shubert manner. Contented patrons of The Student Prince and things like that may dedicate an evening to My Princess...