Word: widowing
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...Merry Widow," in modern dress, waltzed into Boston Monday night and will be receiving guests at the Shubert Theatre for the next two weeks. This up-to-date version of Franz Lehar's evocation of Alt Wien is just about as Viennese as Mom's apple pie, but it is still a good show...
...fact, it has nearly everything an operetta should have. It has dancing--ballroom, ballet, and can-can, all done with devastating elan. In particular, the team of Gilrone and Star shone with their smooth pas de deux in the Merry Widow Waltz...
...despite all these ornaments, I was still dissatisfied, and most of the people around me were, too. The fault, with apologies to Shakespeare, was not in ourselves but in the stars. Neither of the principal performers lived up to the publicity they had received. Ann Andre, the Widow, was sufficiently voluptuous, but she mouthed most of her delicious lines to such an extent that I understood very little of what she said. This might be forgiven, if she had an exceptionally fine voice, but she doesn't. It is much too small, and she has trouble hitting her high notes...
After Joachim von Ribbentrop was hanged as a Nazi war criminal in 1946, his widow Anneliese (nee Henkell) produced a legal compact that Henkell & Co. had been nudged into signing in 1942-when ex-Champagne Salesman von Ribbentrop was at the height of his power as Hitler's Foreign Minister. It stipulated that, if she requested it, son Rudolf would be appointed manager after he had worked for the firm two years...
...mother and father to Passmore as "little less than monsters." Passmore soon finds they are a lot better than that. Mr. Nash is a gentleman, stiff but witty; Mrs. Nash is generous-hearted, and undeceived about human nature. They take so warmly to Passmore and their son's widow that Passmore begins to understand the barrier of misunderstanding that separated the parents from their spoiled son. Newby tells his decent, civilized story effortlessly and well; but at the end its pallor and essential bloodlessness bring a shrug...