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Show Music, 1905-1945 (continued)
Manuscripts (continued)
Miss 1917 (1917) lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse
Note: some lyric sheets indicate Century Show
BOX-FOLDER 24/7 Lyric sheets
Typescript lyric sheets, some with annotations in pencil ; [16] p.
On verso: We want to laugh; Song: Bessie McCoy and girls; typescript page from Piccadilly Jim
Includes:
  • Anytime that you have troubles cutie (Duet: Fancy Price and Willy)
  • At a moving picture show, or, Dear old stage door (Cigar-counter scene, act II, scene 4)
  • A dancing M.D. (Duet: White and Haig)
  • Follow the girl, act I, scene 1 (number to end farm scene)
  • Go, little boat (Assyrian boat-song)
  • I'm the old man in the moon
  • It's a great life (Trio: Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford)
  • The New York girl, scene 2 (Number to end the plaza scene)
  • Nurse, nurse, nurse (Hospital scene)
  • Palm Beach girl song
  • Peaches, act I, scene 1
  • The picture I want to see, act II (film city scene)
  • The society farmerettes, act I, scene 1
  • Tell me all your troubles cutie (Duet: Brice and King, scene 2)
  • We want to laugh (Bessie McCoy and girls)
  • We're crooks
Miss Caprice
see Lieber Augustin
A Modern Eve (1915) lyrics by Harry B. Smith
BOX-FOLDER 24/8 I'd love to dance through life with you
see also Dance through life with you
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink ; [4] p.
BOX-FOLDER 24/9 I've just been waiting for you
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 12 p.
Note: this full score may have been intended for Very Good Eddie
BOX-FOLDER 24/9 I've just been waiting for you
Printed piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
Note: in Kern's hand, "Duet. (Elsie & Dick)," indicating usage in Very Good Eddie
Music in the Air (1932) lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Note: full scores have some water damage
BOX-FOLDER 27/7 And love was born
Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 28/1 Balloon dance #11
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 25/1 Bedroom curtain #22
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 3 p.
BOX-FOLDER 28/2 Bedroom curtain, or, Prayer act II #22
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 25/2 Egern for Lilli
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 16 p.
BOX-FOLDER 28/3 Egern for Lilli #21
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 28/4 Entr'acte #15
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 25/3 Final scene
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink and pencil, annotations in pencil ; 70 p. + p. 15.5 + insertions (6 p.; 8 p. lead sheet/conductor's score for "Edendorf"; and [1] p. choral score)
Includes: We belong together
BOX-FOLDER 28/5 Final scene #27
Parts
Includes: Goat song, or, Goat music
BOX-FOLDER 28/6 Finale ultimo
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 25/4 Finale zoo scene
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 32 p.
BOX-FOLDER 28/7 Finale zoo scene #17
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 25/5 Finaletto (prologue) #2
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 12 p.
At end: Segue Boy No.
BOX-FOLDER 25/5 Boy number #3
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; p. 6-11
BOX-FOLDER 29/1 Finaletto #2 ; Interlude #3 ; Opening act I #4
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 25/6 Frieda sings hurdy gurdy
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 8 p.
BOX-FOLDER 29/2 Frieda's Abgang #19
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 29/3 Frieda's cue #10
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/8 I am so eager
Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 27/9 I'm alone
see also The Cat in the Fiddle
Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 5 p.
Note: first written for The Cat and the Fiddle
BOX-FOLDER 25/7 I'm coming home
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 110 p.
BOX-FOLDER 29/4 I'm coming home #13
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/10 In Egern on the Tegern See
Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 31/2 In Egern on the Tegern See
Parts
Interlude
see Finaletto #2
BOX-FOLDER 29/5 Intro - pit scene #24a ; new #25
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 26/1 I've told every little star - office
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 17 p.
BOX-FOLDER 27/11 I've told every little star
Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 29/6 I've told every little star #12
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 29/7 Melos A #23
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 26/2 On the bummel - intro #8
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 2 p.
BOX-FOLDER 26/2 On the bummel
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; [112] p.
BOX-FOLDER 27/12 On the bummel ; Stony brook scene ; Walking song
Manuscript piano-vocal score in various hands in ink and pencil, some lyric in Kern's hand ; [28] p.
Note: various pages with laid in items
BOX-FOLDER 27/12 On the bummel
Copyist manuscript conductor score/lead sheet in ink, annotations in pencil ; 15 p.
On verso: various cues in pencil
BOX-FOLDER 27/13 One more dance
Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 26/3 Opening act I #4
see also Finaletto #2
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 4 p.
BOX-FOLDER 26/4 Opening act II #16
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink and pencil, annotations in pencil ; [124] p.
BOX-FOLDER 30/1 Opening act II #16
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 30/2 Out march #33
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 30/3 Pit scene ; Steel ballet
see also Intro - pit scene
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/1 Prayer #7
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink ; 7 p.
BOX-FOLDER 30/4 Prayer #7
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/2 Singverein
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 28 p.
Note: By Hammerstein-Beethoven-Kern
BOX-FOLDER 30/5 Singverein #5, #6
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 31/1 Small cues, office scene #9
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/3 The song is you (I hear music)
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 8 p.
BOX-FOLDER 27/14 The song is you
Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 30/6 The song is you (I hear music) #24
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 30/7 The song is you - reprise #26
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 27/4 Terzetto
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 34 p.
Note: In Bennett's hand on p. 10: "N.B. Bell note might be played by neighboring trombonist if he doesn't charge $15 for doubling."
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