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That she was "a virtuous and innocent girl about two months past the age of 16 years" when he "seduced her under promise of marriage...
...Dance of the Seven Veils"- and in Europe the opera at once took front rank. Followed Elektra, whose unpleasant theme, being classic, caused less offense; then Der Rosencavalier, an entirely new departure in its Rabelaisian farce of both libretto and score (the libretto had to be cut for virtuous Manhattan). Der Rosencavalier, with its infectious burlesque, wit and sparkle, stays his best liked opera, perhaps his best to date...
...TIME, Nov. 15, I was attracted by something in the heading of some of the plays reviewed, and sketched through hastily till I came to Gentle Grafters when I must say I was horrified with these lines: "The poor girl has but one asset. She surrenders her virtuous distinction. A little moth, a little flame, a little singe?it is nothing to bring a lump to the throat...
Such plays should not be allowed, and such reviewing in any magazine is certainly worthy of the deepest scorn of all Mothers and Fathers, indeed the entire populace who believe in and practice virtuous living...
...Gertie-Virtuous husbandry wins an honest husband...