Mr. Cinderella
After a few weeks of down time, the scanner has become lonely and is crying for some attention. So, I picked up the next item from a BIG box of ephemera. The songbook for a University of Chicago musical called, "Mr Cinderella: The Twenty-Fifth Annual College Comic Opera", performed by the Blackfriars in 1929. There are loads of names in here, for anyone doing research on a relative. And lots of lovely old photographs.
I can't find much about the music from this show, though I'll be posting the score song by song for anyone who has access to a piano and would like to try it out. In picking it out on our old piano, it sounds like it is heavily influenced by the old musicals and the Roaring 20's. Pity I can't find any online recordings!Research on some of the names didn't turn up anything specific to the "comic opera", however, here were some interesting connections that I wish I had more time to graze:
- Music Conductor, Peter Cavallo, Jr. > Got a mention in Alfred de Grazia's Chicago novel, "The Babe."
- Saul C Weislow seems to have been vice-president, Bing Crosby Productions at one point.
- George S Morgenstern became a journalist for the Chicago Tribune and an author.
- Robert Ardrey became a playwright, screenwriter, and then an researcher in anthropology and the behavioral sciences
