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Show AMERICAN Ml i IS RAGE IN EUROPE Our Musical Comedies Better Than Anything Produced on Other Side Since War lb PRANK I MAuN I international News Service Staff Cor-' Cor-' respondent BERLIN. Oct 16. Ten years ago America paid fancy prices for standing stand-ing room 4o see imported European musical comedies; today Europe turns agerly to America for the latest ja : : int. n American musical corned) will I back a European show off t tie boards i 'The war taught New York produc-j ers tbat American composers and pla-: pla-: vvrights can vvrite better musical comedies com-edies than we can bring over from : Europe. ' declares iiustave Amberg, of 1 New York who Is purchasing European plays and operettas for the Schuberl 'theatrical interests." Mr Amberg Should know, foi In has been Import-Ing Import-Ing European shows into the United Slates for the past twenlv-flve years. We learned that the wai substitute made in America, is better than the Imported article." M NV FORK SVCi EEDS Wl.W. Vienna was the world's capital of operetta before the war. There is I every judication that New 'fork lias "ii. o-rdrd in ; he title Nrgot iation I are under way which will remove Vi-1 Vi-1 una s last claims for Americans are arranging to take Lehar, Oscar Straus I Leo Fall and Kalmann to the United : States. Vienna musical comedies were given (the acid test during the war and the showed up anything but well. Some jof the big Austrian hits were smuggled smug-gled to New York and produced as I American compositions. Shorn of the ; glamour of their foreign titles and of 1 the names of their famous foreign 'composers, the productions failed Kalmann's latest piet e, "The Holland Hol-land Maiden," which is playing to standing room In the big Metropol thc-.atre, thc-.atre, Berlin, and promises to be the season's hit. Is a striking example of the reason why Vienna operetta can't ; compete with New York As to or-iginalltv or-iginalltv the story oC Holland Maiden .is the world's oldest, most vonerabta he whiskered musical corned) plot, it is the stor of the opera .Martha, Waltz, Dream Count At Luxembourg and a dozen others; royally, a forced 'marriage, rebellious Prince and Prin cess runaway. Prince and princess dis guise themselves as Ordinary folks and fall In love anyway. i American jazz has captured allied countries and has a thorough foothold foot-hold in neutral lands. In Copenhagen .rind The Hague you will hear the latest lat-est American ragtime. Jazz is making its wav among our recent enemies as rapidly as their cheapened money will permit them to pay for It. OLI ( III si M l s POP1 LAR. In Berlin you will pay B whole pocketful pock-etful of marks or about fifteen dollars .in real money to dance to 'Moonlight Bay," or "I Want to Re In Dixie." Tho European has not yet been trained up to the point Of the American's disgust for last month's hit. which Is this month's aggravation A good one-step I especially when it is genuine American ragtime remains a good onestop even jlf it is entitled "Walt Till the Sun I Shines Nellie " Until her death Gaby Deslys in Mar-sallles Mar-sallles and Paris, made you pay prii rs jlhnt would make a Brqadway si B I per j blush and hold his breath, to listen : to French w ords sung to American music mu-sic none of which was newer than I four or five years old. |