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The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Irra Petina/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
There have been many successful operettas on Broadway, the most recent being "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and "The Phantom of the Opera." In Ken Mendelbaum's trite book concerning unsuccessful Broadway shows, he refers to all operettas as "floperettas" and all female operetta stars as "floperetta queens." Other Broadway "flops" are not so negatively treated. It seems Mandelbaum does not like operetta very much. Well, that's his opinion!
My problem with the Irra Petina bio is that you quote him calling her a "floperetta queen." There seems to be no reason for this. This is unfair to the memory of her fabulous career. Why quote such an obscure book and such a silly and distainful opinion? Who wrote this bio anyway? Was it Mandelbaum himself? Please revise this, such a thing should not appear in anyone's bio. All I can say about Ken Mandelbaum is that they named him correctly- MandelBAUM. Mickalina1 (talk) 02:18, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Last edited at 02:18, 27 August 2009 (UTC).
Substituted at 19:07, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
