"Sweet and spicy life"

…His works ranged from comedies, melodramas, musicals, and revues, but he is best known for his comedies of manners, such as "Pollen Fever" (1925), which dryly depicted the troubled relationships between men and women of the leisure class, "Private Lives" (1930), "Plans for Living" (1933), "Merry Ghosts" (1941), and "Laughter Now" (premiered in 1942). He also produced the sentimental musical "A Bittersweet Life" (1929), which was a box office success. He wrote the songs for his musicals and revues himself, and often sang them himself. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "A Sweet and Spicy Life" is listed below.

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…作品は喜劇，メロドラマ，ミュージカル，レビューなど多方面にわたるが，最も有名なものは有閑階級の乱れた男女関係を乾いた筆致で描いた《花粉熱》(1925)，《私生活》(1930)，《生活の設計》(1933)，《陽気な幽霊》(1941)，《現在の笑い》(1942初演)などの風習喜劇である。ほかに感傷的なミュージカル《甘辛人生》(1929)も興行的には成功した。彼はミュージカルやレビューの歌を自ら作詞作曲し，しばしば自ら歌った。…

※「《甘辛人生》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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