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New York Broadway Musical Theatre The Student Prince George Hassell Ancienne Photo White 1924 #6
Vintage White Studio Photo in New York.
Broadway Theatre The Student Prince in Heidelberg The Student Prince is an operetta in four acts with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. It is based on Wilhelm Meyer-Förster's play Old Heidelberg. The piece has elements of melodrama but lacks the swashbuckling style common to Romberg's other works. The plot is mostly faithful to its source.
It opened on December 2, 1924, at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre on Broadway. The show was the most successful of Romberg's works, running for 608 performances, the longest-running Broadway show of the 1920s. It was staged by J. C. Huffman.
Drinking Song, with its rousing chorus of Drink! Drink! Drink! was especially popular with theatergoers in 1924, as the United States was in the midst of Prohibition.
Roles and original cast: Prince Karl Franz – Howard Marsh Dr. Engel (the Prince's Tutor) – Greek Evans Kathie (niece of Ruder) – Ilse Marvenga Ruder (Landlord of Inn of Three Gold Apples) – W. H. White Lutz (valet to the Prince) – George Hassell Princess Margaret (fiancee of Prince Karl Franz) – Roberta Beatty Detlef (a student leader) – Raymond Marlowe Von Asterberg (another student leader) – Paul Kleeman Lucas (another student leader) – Frederic Wolff Captain Tarnitz – John Coast Gretchen (a young worker at the tavern) – Violet Carlson Hubert (Lutz's valet) – Charles Williams Countess Leyden (lady-in-waiting to the Princess) – Dagmar Oakland Toni (a waiter and wine steward) – Adolph Link Count Von Mark (prime minister of Karlsberg) – Fuller Mellish Grand Duchess Anastasia (Princess Margaret's mother) – Florence Morrison Rudolph – Lucius Metz Baron Arnheim – Robert Calley Captain of the Guard – Conrad Sparin Nicolas – Fred Wilson
