Word: starlit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gerhart Hauptmann, by Edward J. Steichen, probably the greatest photographer in the U. S. Photographer Steichen posed the great German playwright against an artificial starlit sky, made him look more like the elder Goethe than usual...
...hastily dons petticoats, pretends to be a maid. Enter a fat old Baron who promptly sets to ogling and tweaking her (him). From then on the amorous Baron is never sure whether his path is being crossed by a lovely maid or a courtly rival. True love, young, starlit and sudden, comes to the stage when Octavian, clad in shining satin and bearing a silver rose, is sent to ask a rich young heiress to marry the Baron. Most operas end tragically but when Octavian and Sophie have finished their duet it is clear love will triumph...