Word: shubertism
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...understand the significance of The Kingdom of God, it is necessary to consider the circumstances of its production. The play was a Spanish one, by G. Martinez Sierra, offered by Lee Shubert. For its Manhattan premiere, the Shuberts had provided a brand new theatre named, after the most famous actress in America, the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The occasion was attended by notables. As well as notables there were play-reviewers who, chastened by Actress Barrymore's rebuke, later wrote that the play was bad and that she gave a beautiful performance...
...program for the concert follows: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Vaughan Williams How Sweet, How Fresh S. Paxton Three Italian Folk Songs Dimmi, O Bella Tu Mi Vuoi Cantu di Caccia Harvard Glee Club Von Ewizer Liebe Brahms Sapphische Ode Brahms Lied der Braut Schumann Der Erl Konig Shubert Madame Matzenauer Jubilate Deo G. Gabrieli Plorate Flii Israel Carissimi Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence French Folk Song Arr. by Holst Harvard Glee Club Intermission Over The Steppe Gretchanioff On Wings of Dream Arensky In The Silent Night Rachmaninoff Thy Warning is Good Grieg Madame Matzenauer Shoot, False Love...
Weathering a mediocre first act, "The Red Robe," at the Shubert, gets under way in the second and third, and areas through to a place well up among the "Vagabond kings" and "Student Princes" of historical musical comedy. Its source is "Under the Red Robe," the novel of twenty years ago by Stanley Weyman, and its plot, if you are a stickler about things like that, is so definite as to inspire bold-faced play acting by Cardinal Richelieu, in the person of Jose Ruben. Add his name to the sedentary principals who have dared do their historical atmosphere well...
...Shubert at 8.15-"The Queen's Taste". One morning the Queen found she had a cold, and consequently this didn't taste quite...
From the names-of-the great inconspicuous who were connected with this bit, we had a premonition days before hand that three hours at the Shubert might be uncomfortable. They were; they were worse than that. And because the young person with whom we went insisted upon sticking the whole thing through, we had to stay beyond the end of the first act. There are three acts...