Word: roundelay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...round" of the title is a roundelay of love in ten episodes; after each amorous intrigue, one of the lovers moves, in the next episode, into the arms of a new partner, who flits in turn to another lover until the ironic game comes full circle. Through the cycle runs a delightful Oscar Straus waltz, signaling each consummation, helping to set a gauzily Viennese mood, and accompanying a refrain sung and spoken by Narrator Walbrook. The narrator spins a symbolic merry-go-round and manages the characters like a master puppeteer, pops up in each episode as a waiter, doorman...