Crossword-Solution: FLEDERMAUS 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

That was made plain, even if anyone had been inclined to think otherwise, when subsequently he substituted an operetta, Strauss's "Fledermaus," for the religious play, and called on all of his artists who did not sing in it to sit at tables in the ball scene, give a concert, and participate in the dancing.

There were sensational features, like the production of "Parsifal" and "Salome," but there were humiliating ones, like the prostitution of a great establishment for the performance of "Die Fledermaus" and "Der Zigeunerbaron" to deck out the Herr Direktor's benefits.

Conried lowered the status of the Metropolitan Opera House when he performed "Die Fledermaus" and "Der Zigeunerbaron" at his benefits.

And we track them later to such institutions as the Fledermaus--"_der grosse luxuriöse, vornehmstes vergnügungsplatz, paradiesgarten, grösste sehenswürdigkeit Berlins_" (in the advertisements)--as the Victoria and the Café Riche, the Westminster and the Café Opéra and-- * * * "Berlin spirit, huh!" _they_ are telling _their_ wives a month later--"Berlin spirit? All artificial.

The general notion was that they were a kind of bird with wings of skin, while the German name for the creature, _Fledermaus_, or fluttering mouse, points to another opinion that they were neither bird nor beast, but a mixture of both.