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...Louis Municipal ("Muny") Opera (not opera at all but musicomedy well-mounted on a revolving stage) has been running since June 4, when Bernice Claire, Gladys Baxter and Guy Robertson sang in The Great Waltz. Last week St. Louis applauded Oldtimer Blanche Ring's performance of Music in the Air by Hammerstein & Kern...
Featured songs on the program will be "The Rows of Roosevelt" and the "Name Song." The latter will be accompanied by a motion picture of the classmates under discussion. The dancing will be another high spot in the show, and the "Fancy Formations" waltz ballet number by the daughters of 1912 is by no means the smallest item of entertainment. Fred Child, professional dancing mentor, has directed this part of the affair...
Literally dazzling to the eye, splendiferous in its costuming and setting, "The Great Waltz" made another stop in its countrywide tour to open a return engagement of two weeks at the Boston Opera House last night. A brilliant mixture of singing, dancing, lovemaking and fireworks makes the whole melange a Roman Holiday in the nineteenth century manner, staged with all the gaudiness of twentieth century America...
...course the music is the spice, or rather, the sweetening of the evening. Waltz compositions of both the Strausses are played and sung at well-spaced intervals but occasionally they become syrupy. The musical comedy starts with the Radetsky March and ends with the climactic The Beautiful Blue Danube, played by the younger Strauss to an enraptured audience at the fashionable Dommayer beer garden. As the orchestra plays and the audience dances, the happy singing announces that Vienna has acclaimed a new waltz king, worthy successor of his own father...
...producer has designed all sorts of clever and handsome sets that move about the stage with a rapidity that is as enjoyable to the spectators as the show itself. Possessing all the qualities of a best-seller musical comedy, with a long run already behind it, "The Great Waltz" appears to become something in the nature of an American custom...