Word: toyshop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ROSSINI-RESPIGHI: LA BOUTIQUE FANTASQUE (London Philharmonic, Eugene Goossens conducting; Victor: 6 sides). A familiar item in the repertory of the Ballet Russe, Choreographer Massine's Fantastic Toyshop has memorably tuneful music. Performance first rate...
...juvenile holiday trade the Brothers Shubert have revived Victor Herbert's Babes In Toyland. The production has an air of Herbert-cum-Ringling Bros. For the chief attraction of the show is a troupe of Singer's midgets who dress up as penguins in the toyshop scene, play in a jazz band, direct the lumbering movements of three very large elephants. In the midst of the general merriment one midget rides across the stage on a reindeer. What is left of the Herbert score is ably handled by a cast of full-sized adults and a small...