Word: shubertism
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...Shubert--"The Moon Rises". Shubert presents a conventional operetta in a very elaborate setting. Expensive assistance of glamorous-from-Paris heroine may please...
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After having had its name changed innumerable times the new Friml operetta has been chirstened "Annina" and the first performance will be given tomorrow night at the Shubert. At the head of a pretentious cast is the Viennese prima donna, Mme. Jeritza, famous for her voice and blonde hair. The story holds true to the tradition of light opera both in having its setting in the lazy and carefree Vienna of Francis Joseph, and in the Cinderella motiff which is the basis of the plot. With the singing of Jeritza, the undoubted musical ability of Mr. Friml, and the elaborate...
...More Ladies (by A. E. Thomas; Lee Shubert, producer). Nimbly written around the tried & seldom true formula of a philandering husband who is brought to his senses by a dose of his own medicine, this comedy is compact of witty lines and stale quips, hilarious situations and brummagem tricks. There is the sly, wise grandmother in frumpy clothes (Lucille Watson) who speaks a pure nightclub patois and gets tipsy. There is the joke about flowers with celebrated names planted in the same bed. Some one even gets a chance to remark that Adolf Hitler is "all swelled up with...
...last, spent $300,000 to mount it. It ran for 60 weeks. In 1931 he put on his positively last Follies at his own Ziegfeld Theatre. In July 1932 the old grandee died in Hollywood. Last summer Broadway's two great salvage men, Lee and J. J. Shubert, contracted for the great name "Ziegfeld Follies" from Billie Burke Ziegfeld. They immediately set about giving their name a show. Knowing the Shuberts' famed pinchbeck failings, Mrs. Ziegfeld began by passing on director, cast, sets and costumes. Since she was acting in Hollywood in Universal's Only Yesterday, names...