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...Thee I Sing...
...France, but sententious Protestant Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York was furious last week. He had been to see one of the most amusing two acts of musical insanity current on Broadway, Of Thee I Sing. An early scene in the play represented the campaign headquarters of Mr. Wintergreen, candidate for the U. S. Presidency. When he jilted the winner of a beauty contest, who turned out to be "the illegitimate daughter of an illegitimate son of an illegitimate nephew of Napoleon," the bishop's pulse remained about normal. Then the French Ambassador, represented as a fidgety little...
...Harris, who has a sense of humor as well as a sense of publicity, turned the letter over to the newspapers. Librettist Kaufman handsomely offered to delete the scene if the Bishop would write a substitute equally funny. Consul General Count Charles de Fontnouvelle, interviewed, remembered having seen Of Thee I Sing...
...curtain rises on a new show, he recalls Sullivan's baton at the Savoy, and nostalgia overcomes him. He blows the froth off the new theatrical brew, looks within the stein, and finds it empty. Disappointment has made him crusty, and of the modern shows he applauds only "Of Thee I Sing," the one perfect blend of the "hey-nonny-nonny...
...Hallelujah Cherus Feetheres Aderamus. Te Palestrilne Fire. Fire. My Heart Mericy Olais and Osiers Mesart Genfly, Johuny, My Musale English Folk Song Chooses from the Mikado' Suilivan Intermission Horder Ballsd William The Foggy Dew English Folk Song Spanish Ladies English Folk Songs Two Choruses from the Reaulen Frame To Thee Alone be Glory Rach...