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...first performed in Paris in the days of Empress Eugenie. Prince Metternich took one horrified gander at its neo-Homeric ribaldry, primly led his wife to the nearest exit. But La Belle Hélène outlived Metternich. Last week, in a new version called Helen Goes to Troy, a lavish $140,000 Manhattan production that seemed likely to become Broadway's latest smash-hit musical, it was still going strong...
Produced by Yolanda Mero-Irion's New Opera Company (TIME, Nov. 9, 1942), Helen Goes to Troy has a revised book and a slightly altered cast of Olympians, including a seminude Venus who really earns her apple. The melodic champagne of its original score has been spiked (by Composer Erich Korngold) with heady draughts from a dozen other Offenbach operettas, including the Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman. Its Helen is sung by chestnut-haired Czech . Soprano Jarmila Novotna, one of the few opera stars who can fill the eye as well...
...SAILOR, TAKE WARNING-Kelley Roos -Dodd, Mead & Co. ($2). The middle-aged yacht enthusiast was stabbed in broad daylight on a knoll overlooking a Central Park lake, in full view of Jeff Troy and his wife, who trail an exceptionally well-concealed killer through exciting, amusing situations. Good detecting, pleasant people and good...
...Small Name. In Valley Falls, N.Y., Clifford Lewis, whose wife's name is Frances, arrived from Troy, moved into his new home, found his next-door neighbor is Clifford Lewis, whose wife's name is Frances...
...Paris-trained alumnus of Ida Rubinstein's troupe and one of the few choreographers who is equally famed as a dancer of male leads. A rival of Massine, Lichine resembles him in his love for flamboyant spectacle (Fair at Sorochinsk, Francesca da Rimini) and sophisticated satire (Helen of Troy, Graduation Ball...