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...Italo Montemezzi, a brilliant young Italian who has been described as one of the foremost modern composers. The opera was given its first public performance in 1913 and has ever since remained a favorite with musical audiences. With a ruined medieval castle as the setting, it has an allegorical plot which is filled with beautiful singing...
...whole business is simply one more proof of the many times repeated assertion that study of the classics is rapidly disappearing from American education in spite of everything that is being done to save it. This is the final body-blow, a wretched plot organized by enthusiastic students and professors of science, who hope to see the last defences of Greek and Latin blotted out in the shadow of the eclipse...
...mistaken for a foreign prince who is visiting the city at the same time. The publishers promptly accept his story under the delusion that he is the prince writing under a "nom de plume." During this act there are several songs and a specialty act of Jake's. The plot unfolds during the second and third acts with a series of complications which of course unravel themselves, and the play closes with the inevitable happy ending, flavored by another act of Jake...
...newest panic is that of red "circles". Opponents of the New Order are already punning violently upon "circle" and "square", and the League for the Purity of American Humor is reported to be stalking the impious punster. Certain irreverent youths have suggested that this is a sewing-circle plot to clothe unprotected females in red flannel. It is plain that by all those, amused or amusing, who will watch the growth of these clandestine, colorful clubs, the Young People's Socialist League will be welcomed as the only "thriller" of a scarcely endurable season...
...near the final curtain, but throughout the play Mr. Brown displays an irritating amount of slovenliness in his writing. Thus two of the six characters appear in the early stages of the play for insignificant reasons, and than exit into obscurity--loose ends unconnected with the remainder of the plot. Rosner, for example, has apparently no better excuse for being in the play than to provide the hero with the indispensable automatic. The gun, together with an unemptied waste basket, remains conspicuously placed in the office of a busy business man for twenty four hours; of course nobody disturbs...