... By Horace Horsnell Blossom Time (Lyric) Sadler's ff ells Ballet (Netc) LET it be said at once, since comparisons need not be odious, that Blossom Time is Lilac Time in another part of the old Vienna garden. These two operettas are not so much independent works as variations on a similar theme-- genius at odds with life and love. Schubert, the hero of both, is the same inspired innocent who ...

... By Horace Horsnell IT hy Not Tonight (Ambassadors) GOOD farce, like good wine, needs no bush. It is to indifferent comedy rather what vintage burgundy is to dubious bordeaux-- especially if, expecting the one, you are fobbed off with the other. One of the virtues of farce is that the characters do not expect to be taken too seriously. They are licensed clowns, and are out, not to edify, but to ...

... TU By Horace Horsnell Skylark (Duchess) ALL for love, and the world well lost is a grand theme for a dramatist, and Shakespeare and Dryden both did marvels with it. Mr. Samson Raphaelson, the author of this modest American version, would probably be the last to claim kinship with his illustrious predecessors. His heroine is no Cleopatra, but the cosiest of little New York wives, and his hero ...

... By Horace Horsnell Full Swing (Palace) NOVELTY for novelty's sake is a temptation the authors and composers of this sequel to Under Your Hat have wisely resisted. Full Swing is the mixture more or less as before. Hulbert and Courtneidge fans will therefore feel immediately and happily at home on the spy trail that takes them from London to Rio and back, in the company of as dastardly a dago as ...

... By Horace Horsnell The Maid oj the Mountains (Coliseum) THESE famous old musical comedies have a way with them. It's not so much a swagger as a simple faith in their power to please. We delighted your fathers, they seem to say; and if you don't care much for the words, just listen to the tunes. Not all of them, of course, would have weathered a quarter of a century of fickle fashion as ...