Alphabet Associations - II

[Dermot]

Hooray for...

[Dermot]

The only noun I can think of which appears in two Strauss operas is "Frau" ("silent", and "without shadow") - change the sex and I can't think of anything beginning with "y"

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Frau is correct. It is the later composed opera. Change the sex and the full title, in English, is... Now get out your thesaurus or think of the self-description of the ex-Tory leader who has just been re-elected to parliament.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

We're still on "Y" aren't we?

[Dermot]

We're still on "Y" aren't we?

Yes. There is a Y musical connection that links all three parts of the question.

[Dermot]

See #3241 for the field we are in.

[Dermot]

...and we're not in County Down

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Which Y links,

The helper of Joe and Marian

Shane.

The lover of Mary Kate

Another Marion - Mr Mitchell Morrison who, for some reason changed his name to John Wayne when he starred in many a Western, such as The Quiet Man, in which he played a failing Tory leader in desperate need of cough lozenges.

The Book of Judges

In which we find the story of Samson & Delilah, made into a film starring Heddy Lamarr ("Heddy Lamarrr!") and Victor Mature - which is ironic, as all three films had scores by Victor Young.

[Pulcinella]

Shane.


Another Marion - Mr Mitchell Morrison who, for some reason changed his name to John Wayne when he starred in many a Western, such as The Quiet Man, in which he played a failing Tory leader in desperate need of cough lozenges.


In which we find the story of Samson & Delilah, made into a film starring Heddy Lamarr ("Heddy Lamarrr!") and Victor Mature - which is ironic, as all three films had scores by Victor Young.

Yikes!
Well done, ferney (if you're right, as I'm sure you will be).
Though we have YOUR explanation, I'd like to know how Dermot's hints were supposed to help.
I'd got as far as Yankee, but stumbled over a male Elektra or Salome, and with the Rosenkavalier being a travesty role anyway.......
Not that I was playing, merely watching from the sidelines.

[Dermot]

Shane.


Another Marion - Mr Mitchell Morrison who, for some reason changed his name to John Wayne when he starred in many a Western, such as The Quiet Man, in which he played a failing Tory leader in desperate need of cough lozenges.


In which we find the story of Samson & Delilah, made into a film starring Heddy Lamarr ("Heddy Lamarrr!") and Victor Mature - which is ironic, as all three films had scores by Victor Young.

Correct in all respects. I will go through the clues after I have eaten dinner

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Shane helps out Marian Wotsit and her young son Joe in the film Shane.
"The Silent Woman" is a Strauss opera, which is nearly the same as a "Quiet Woman", who, after a change of sex, becomes a "Quiet Man", the title of a John Wayne film set in Ireland, in which his character (Sean Thornton - the "quiet man" of the title) falls in love with Mary Kate Danaher (played by Maureen O'Hara. Ian Duncan Smith when he led the Conservative Party in the '90s, warned his political opponents never to underestimate the power of a quiet man - but he said it so quietly neither they, nor the electorate, heard him.
And "Gaza" gives the clue as to which particular character in Judges was being referenced.

[antongould]

Shane helps out Marian Wotsit and her young son Joe in the film Shane.
"The Silent Woman" is a Strauss opera, which is nearly the same as a "Quiet Woman", who, after a change of sex, becomes a "Quiet Man", the title of a John Wayne film set in Ireland, in which his character (Sean Thornton - the "quiet man" of the title) falls in love with Mary Kate Danaher (played by Maureen O'Hara. Ian Duncan Smith when he led the Conservative Party in the '90s, warned his political opponents never to underestimate the power of a quiet man - but he said it so quietly neither they, nor the electorate, heard him.
And "Gaza" gives the clue as to which particular character in Judges was being referenced.

Excellent ferney

[Dermot]

Shane helps out Marian Wotsit and her young son Joe in the film Shane.
"The Silent Woman" is a Strauss opera, which is nearly the same as a "Quiet Woman", who, after a change of sex, becomes a "Quiet Man", the title of a John Wayne film set in Ireland, in which his character (Sean Thornton - the "quiet man" of the title) falls in love with Mary Kate Danaher (played by Maureen O'Hara. Ian Duncan Smith when he led the Conservative Party in the '90s, warned his political opponents never to underestimate the power of a quiet man - but he said it so quietly neither they, nor the electorate, heard him.
And "Gaza" gives the clue as to which particular character in Judges was being referenced.

Many thanks for this. It allows me to go and watch Match of the Day. It is probably clearer if you were a habitué of the tuppeny rush at the local flea house in the nineteen fifties. Shane is a great film and I was thinking of the hero helping Marian and Joe, her husband, rather than young Joey, their son.

''Gee, mom, you still bake the best apple pie in Gaza'', is humorously quoted in articles as being said by Victor Mature in Samson and Delilah, but he didn't actually say it. Whereas John Wayne, as the centurion, did say ''Truly this man was the son of Gawd'' in The Greatest Story Ever Told.

[subcontrabass]

Whereas John Wayne, as the centurion, did say ''Truly this man was the son of Gawd'' in The Greatest Story Ever Told.

There is a story that in rehearsal he was instructed to "Say it with awe, John", so the line came out as "Awe, trruly this man was the son of God."

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Right then, a Z to help you through the night:

A hurried hypochondriac with a bronze snake on the feast of Stephen.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz .....................

[cloughie]

Right then, a Z to help you through the night:

A hurried hypochondriac with a bronze snake on the feast of Stephen.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz .....................

Maybe Zelenka but I’m trying to figure out why - Stephen is film music producer and Jan Dismas the composer of Hypochondri and Serpenti di bronzo.