FRIML, RUDOLF. Master of the European operetta; b. Prague, Bohemia (now Czech Republic), ; d. Hollywood, California, .
In the early part of the century the musical theater took two separate paths: the homegrown American musical comedy, represented by the works of George M. Cohan , Irving Berlin , and Jerome Kern , and the European operetta, represented by VictorHerbert, Sigmund Romberg , and Rudolf Friml ...