Raúl Doblas

Real name: Doblas, Raúl Pedro del Corazón de Jesús
Lyricist and play writer
(14 April 1898 - 4 September 1965)
Place of birth:
Buenos Aires Argentina
By
Orlando del Greco

noteworthy playwright, he brought to our theater outstanding plays like La rebelión de los fenómenos, Mulata, Los dopados, Los Genoveses somos así. The latter was co-written with Alberto Weisbach and was the most successful.

Devoted to variety shows, he was stage director of the ones he wrote with Mario J. Bellini and César A. Bourel and staged at the Florida Theater in a fairly long season: El arte del desnudo, La revista picaresca, Sacate la camisa, La Virgen del Ba-Ta-Clán, Milonguita en el Florida, Un blanco cuerpo desnudo, Las alegres hijas del placer, Eva desnuda, La hora sensual, Quevedo en el Florida, ¿Por qué no te desnudás?, Quitate la camisa, ¿Están desnudas?, Las Vírgenes del Florida, Aquí está el mejor pan dulce, La hora del placer, Mignón.

He wrote some songs, very few, for the plays he premiered; one of them, the shimmy "¡Hola, Señorita!", co-written with Alberto Weisbach and with music by Antonio De Bassi which was premiered by Juan Carlos Marambio Catán in the revue ¿A París?... ¡Te lo regalo! by Doblas and Weisbach, premiered by Muiño-Alippi at the Buenos Aires Theater on March 7, 1925, was recorded by Carlos Gardel.

He had not a frequent contact with the unforgettable Carlitos. He said: «My link with Gardel was limited just to some coffee we had together with some friends we shared. I only remember the euphoric man, full of life, who added the hearty kind touch at these meetings with his picturesque speech plenty of wittiness and criollo charm».

Doblas was born in Buenos Aires on April 14, 1898 and there he died on September 4, 1965.