The Bartered Bride to the Offenbach genre. Smetana was hurt by this remark, which he felt downgraded his opera to operetta status, and was convinced that press hostility had been generated by a former adversary, the Russian composer Mily Balakirev. The pair had clashed some years earlier, over the Provisional Theatre's stagings of Glinka's "A Life for the Tsar" and "Ruslan and Lyudmila". Smetana believed that Balakirev had used the Russian premiere of "The Bartered Bride" as a means of exacting revenge. "The Bartered Bride" was not performed abroad again until after Smetana's death in 1884. It was staged by the Prague National
There Goes the Bride (1932 film) and all the while Max and Annette are falling in love. "TV Guide" gave the film one out of four stars, lamenting, "a series of barely funny screwball situations"; whereas "Eye for Film" wrote, "Matthews steals this bright little comedy. She has an effervescence and genuine likeability, which keep you watching," and concluded, "I would urge you to give this film a go - it is harmless fun." There Goes the Bride (1932 film) There Goes the Bride is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Jessie Matthews, Owen Nares, Carol Goodner, Basil Radford and