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...their own. Tessa and Gianetta steer a refreshing course, avoiding the Victorian doldrums (insipid Mabel, elfish Yum-Yum) and the Gilbertian caricatures (whining Ruth, tasteless Katisha). "When a Merry Maiden Marries" comes off with admirable airiness and grace, and so does the romping fantasy, "'Tis a glorious thing, I ween, to be a Regular Royal Queen." The right note of plaintiveness without nagging is reached in Tessa and Gianetta's advice to their departing husbands, "It's understood you will be good, and not too gay . . . and not address a lady less than forty-five...
MUTED TRUMPET sonorously and glamorously holds sway in Ted Ween's "COME ON, BABY." The other side of the record is occupied busily with Shilkret's "HERE'S THAT PARTY...
...Whom we ween...
...FOOL.To read thy mind is difficult, I ween...
...soft, she comes! - So fair, indeed, I ween...