MERRY WIDOW WALTZ.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11126, 27 July 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

MERRY WIDOW WALTZ.

m -// LONDON, June 15. .'.-. ■-. The, waltz of "The Merry Widow" has ,?'set. the fire."' It has already be- / come popular. Within a hour or two of its bemgjperfbrmed for the first time at Daly's Theatre on Saturday; peoplewere singing it as they went home. As a rule! London gives more popular airs ; than . it receives. ; The waltz of .The Merry Widow'!' is one of the airs >vhich it will receive with cordiality. It has overspread- the Continent, where it wplayed wherever there is a band.. Herr Franz Lehar,. although a resident of Vienna— ever, famous for its waltzes— is a Hungarian, .and his music publishers " have made, it is said, .a profit of £60,000 out of this waltz opera. The waltz has a baunting air with a slow dreamy swing that settles on the memory, and all. England will have to be prepared to hear it -played by every' band and organ m the country from now forward until goodness knows when. It is an. epoch-making waltz, although" simple. Whistling will once more become general, and street organs that play the waltz are expected to be allowed to stay as long as they like m even the jnost exclusive streets.