Word: waltzes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Adele Strauss, 70, relict of famed Viennese composer Johann Strauss ("Blue Danube" waltz, Die Fledermaus operetta); at Vienna; of pneumonia...
...stage show is fairly entertaining. The dancing is poor, with the exception of a couple who go through a semi-adagio waltz. There is a troop of tumblers who are good. On one occasion the leader of the stage orchestra is seized by them and given a little experience in being tumbled. The setting, as usual, is gorgeous and highly elaborate, and there is some very intricate piano-playing done at one point...
...keep from going to sleep when Coolidge reads a propagandized speech over the radio, "and listen like a three-years child" when Fosdick so graciously modernizes. And I will submit to an operation on aforementioned when a doctor satisfactorily explains to me how Tschaikowsky wrote his tragedic waltz "De Fleurs," or where Clara Bow found...
...squadrons of beauties, find it quite easy to maintain a parity of nudity. The proceedings are of the hot weather variety which used to occur on the old Winter Garden stage before the lean years fell on the spangle manufacturers. Among the show's subtler assets are a waltz by Moss & Fontana, a bedroom scene in which Gertrude Lawrence creates considerable foolishment, and the spinning, leaping rhythms of Anton Dolin, a swarthy Englishman who once led the Diaghiliev Rus-sian ballet. Jimmy McHugh has written pleasant songs ("On the Sunny Side of the Street," "Exactly Like You") which...
...exaggerated expectations, especially if the previous revivals in this group have not been seen. The vastness of modern musical plays are very apt to make one forget that George White and Florenz Ziegfeld are unique to this generation. Therefore, those who know of this operetta only through the famous waltz are going to be particularly impressed with the thinness of something they expected to be rich in every form of theatrical entertainment...