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...story dates from an old play called The Road to Yesterday. The characters stare soulfully at the spotlight and wish for the romantic glory of the Middle Ages; the lights go out, stage hands scurry and scenery bumps in the darkness; the lights revive on a 15th Century garden. Victor Herbert snatched the opportunity to inject a rousing old-fashioned marching-drinking song which, with The Dream Girl ballad and Miss Bainter's I Want to Go Home, are the leaders of a highly melodious evening...
Gloom pervaded the church, save for the glare of one spotlight playing upon the speaker's platform. There stood the Rev. O'Farrell, gesticulating, shouting to make himself heard above a strange series of interruptions. Beside him, chattering, chirping, squeaking, a lively monkey tugged and chafed at the cord that tethered it to a broomstick. Brought into the pulpit by the preacher to advertise his bold sermon and to illustrate his bold points, the simian had to be held in place by the sermonizer's 12-year-old daughter...
Inspection of this list enlightens us as to what extent Budapest has stolen the spotlight from London and Vienna...
Topsy and Eva?Western reports credit this musical Uncle Tom's Cabin with vast possiblities. The Duncan Sisters share the spotlight...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC?Walter Hampden making this luscious romance an evening of indescribable glamor, even when the spotlight is on his nose...