Word: slezak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this comes out of an unpublished novel by Wallace Smith and Erich von Stroheim who used to go around frightening virgins out of their wits on the silent screen. On the operetta stage it somehow fails to click. A possible explanation lies in the choice of Walter Slezak, whose big act is chubby artlessness, to play the part of the psychiatrist. Mr. Slezak was the amiable bumpkin in Music in the Air. And most spectators will find it hard to understand why such a handsome brunette as Nancy McCord ultimately dismisses Baritone Walter Woolf King (formerly Walter Wolf) in favor...
...Music in the Air"--Alvin, W. 52nd Street--Werronrath sings tuneful music, Walter Slezak is altogether ingenuous, and the whole a nicely sentimental romance in Bavaria...
...best section of Act I is "Impromptu" laid in the music publishing office of Ernst Weber at Munich. To it come apple-cheeked Dr. Lessing (Al Shean), his pretty, wide-eyed daughter Sieglinde (Katherine Carrington of Face the Music) and her rustic boy friend Karl (Walter Slezak). These bucolics have arrived in town with the walking club from the mountain village of Edendorf where everyone seems to have been born with a pitchpipe in his mouth. Unhappily for them, the rural lovers meet a playwright and his man-killing mistress, an opera star, impersonated with gusto by beauteous Natalie Hall...
Will you please correct the statement in your next issue, [and state] that the offense was not belonging to the Communist Party but that the aforesaid trio are charged by the Polish government as conspirators and traitors to the country and the punishment adjudged is fully justified. JOHN S. SLEZAK Amsterdam...