HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE
Produced on a spectacular scale by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with Jeanette MacDonald, the Sonia of ‘The Merry Widow,’ and acknowledged one of the greatest singing stars of the screen, and Nelson Eddy, operatic baritone, hailed as a sensational “ discovery ”• among romantic leading men, ‘ Naughty Marietta ’ was filmed as a drama of romantic days, a vehicle that gives to the famous Victor Herbert music the importance it merits. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s screen transcription of ‘ Naughty Marietta,’ which is at His Majesty’s Theatre, takes on as much importance as its original stage premiere because of the unique handling of the story. The old comic opera libretto was laid aside, and the stirring incidents, historical facts, and dramatic thrills referred to in dialogue in the stage version are actually shown. Miss MacDonald plays a princess who masquerades as a casquette girl, and Nelson Eddy a British officer in New Orleans. Their songs are backed by huge symphony orchestras, a chorus of a hundred voices, and many musical novelties fitted into the score by Herbert Stothart, famous composer and. one-time associate of Herbert.
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Evening Star, Issue 22456, 29 September 1936, Page 11
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178HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE Evening Star, Issue 22456, 29 September 1936, Page 11
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