Also credited on2 works
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In the literature4 passages
- What to do? What else? Get Victor Herbert on the phone. Get an original libretto by Rida Johnson Young. (Who?) Call the whole thing Naughty Marietta, open it on Broadway, and run for two smash years.ebooks/Jones, Tom/Making Musicals_ An Informal Introduction to the World of Musical Theater - Tom Jones.txt
- Those two musical ideas and the outline of the plot (moved from Berlin to New York) was all that Sigmund Romberg and his collaborator, Rida Johnson Young, retained from the German piece. Writing a completely new score, they changed even the nature of the two numbers they used as models, for “Das War in Schöneberg” is not remotely as rapt…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
- Arnold Daly temporarily forsook Shaw for Rida Johnson Young’s comedy, “The Boys of Company B.” In his cast were Frances Ring, Howard Estabrook, Mack Sennett and Florence Nash making her New York debut. Later John Barrymore played his first major role when he replaced Mr. Daly. Meanwhile sister Ethel had a short session in John Galsworthy’…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
- "Forgive, Forgive." Produced New York, Lyric Theatre, September 13, 1909. Naughty Marietta (1910). Book and lyrics: Rida Johnson Young; music: Victor Herbert. Operetta set in New Orleans in 1780. Having fled from Naples and an undesirable marriage along with a group of casquette girls. Marietta comes under the protection of Captaintheatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
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