Word: rosalinda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost immediately he landed a comic refugee bit part in something called Cue for Passion. Knowing hardly a word of English, Karlweis learned his lines "like a parrot," got wonderful notices. He got them again as the Prince in the enormously successful revival of Johann Strauss's Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus). By then his English was fine. Chuckles he slyly: "As the French say, 'The pillow is the best teacher...
Hollywood and Broadway, lending his deft, poetic touch to a half-dozen top-flight musicals (On Your Toes, Louisiana Purchase, Rosalinda, Merry Widow...
...Castle Leopoldskron. Celebrated in the U.S. for The Miracle (1924), Jewish Max Reinhardt was reduced to Paris poverty in the early days of Nazidom, made a Hollywood comeback in 1935 with his first & only movie, the $1,300,000 A Midsummer Night's Dream. As he died his Rosalinda (Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus) was entering its second smashing revival year on Broadway...
...first three: Johann Strauss's Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus); Sigmund Romberg's The Student Prince; Rudolf Friml's The Vagabond King...
...with anything. Entertainment held the field. Thornton Wilder's cockeyed The Skin of Our Teeth started ten thousand arguments, sold a quarter of a million seats and won the Pulitzer Prize. Oklahoma!, musicomedy's least orthodox offering in years, was also its most charming and successful. As Rosalinda, Johann Strauss's 6g-year-old, waltz-drenched Die Fledermaus became a surprise smash...