THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER
(M.G.M.
F we had produced a chocolate as sickly and indigestible as this we would have written to Aunt Daisy imme-
diately to ask what was wrong with the recipe. But in default of the Daisy Chain, perhaps we ean explain
why our little man is feeling slightly off colour. First, we’re doubtful about the choice of ingredients. Admittedly it was the best butter and the sweetest sugar, but were they added in the right places and the right quantities? Then again, in spite of slow and very prolonged cooking, the story remains sticky and one is forced to the conclusion that Molnar’s spicy Guardsman plot was never meant to mix with Oscar Straus’s sugary Chocolate Soldier music. It’s about as happy a combination as that of Karl (Nelson Eddy) and Maria Lang (Rise Stevens), and that theirs isn’t a very happy marriage can be gathered from the fact that Nelson Eddy even has to disguise himself as someone else before he can persuade his wife to fall in love with him. While we prefer chocolates to have hard centres, one good thing does emerge from the effort to digest this confection --we are introduced to the possibility of disguising Nelson Eddy always. Now that’s an idea,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 170, 25 September 1942, Page 17
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