Notes from FileMaker 'Lecturer/Performer' field: Gladstone, Herbert

Notes from FileMaker 'Cross-Reference Titles' field: Reel to Reel tapes from the estate of Herbert Gladstone The Merry Widow (German: Die lustige Witwe) is an operetta by the Austro–Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband – on an 1861 comedy play, L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché) by Henri Meilhac.