Word: swarth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operetta librettos. Spirited but silly, its best moments are those in which hook-nosed Willie Howard, as a Jewish gold prospector from the Deep South, and bespectacled Herb Williams, as a rapacious insurance salesman, engage in vaudeville patter in the Golden Nugget Saloon; and those in which Miss Swarth out, with or without the somewhat tremulous accompaniment of Mr. Boles, sings // I Should Lose You, Little Rose of the Rancho, The Vigilante Song, Where Is My Love. By her singing Contralto Swarthout makes it clear that, in the current operatic sweepstakes, she will not be out distanced by the Hollywood...