Boy Meets Girl - DVD

A story so nice they did it thrice! The Gershwin musical Girl Crazy finds yet another financially strapped out-West ranch in need of youthful showbiz enthusiasm in this star-studded, '60s-tinged movie redo. Connie Francis and Harve Presnell play the young love- and songbirds eager to turn the spread into a moneymaking dude ranch. There's plenty of music making, too, with original Gershwin songs plus an eclectic mix of specialty numbers

At Theater an der Wien Stanislaw Moniuszko's Polish national opera Halka is performed by a superb cast including Corinne Winters (InchdevotedlyInch), Piotr Beczala (Inchvocally outstandingInch) and Tomasz Konieczny (Inchhis acting is piercingInch) (Der Standard). With libretto by young Polish poet Wlodzimierz Wolski, the opera is widely considered to be one of Moniuszko's greatest operas, and in fact was described by noted musicologist Carl Dalhaus as InchThe Polish national opera.Inch The Polish leading team, above all director Mariusz Trelinski, puts the plot into a supercooled crime aesthetic. The ORF Radio Symphonie-Orchester Wien under the baton of Lukasz Borowicz plays with perceptible delight. InchA gripping opera eveningInch (Wiener Zeitung).

In this edgy comedy that squeaked past the production code, Kay Francis returns to her roles of yore, playing an aging gold-digger. Grace Herbert gets by romancing men just long enough to land a hefty 'breach of promise' suit. When her latest fall-boy's old man runs her out of town before she can hook him, Grace takes it on the lam and heads down south. Realizing her better days are behind her, she takes on a protege (Mildred Coles), me