Adah Richmond s Songs. Only In Fun: Ladies Serio-Comic Song

FRENCH, Arthur and R.S. Crandall. (Adah Richmond)

Verlag: F.W. Helmick, 278 W. Sixth St, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1875

Beschreibung

Piano-vocal score. Quarto (10" x 13"). 6pp. Front cover printed in blue and gold, with a mounted albumen photograph of Adah Richmond. With publisher s advertisements printed on the front cover verso and on the back cover. Old spine repairs, modest crease on front cover, very good. In the late 1870s Adah Richmond formed a groundbreaking burlesque company, credited as marking the beginning of American burlesque. In*No Legs, No Jokes, No Chance: A History of the American Musical Theater*, the authors credit Richmond s company with the "beginning ofAmericanburlesque," (original emphasis) still based on a British parody format, but with "heightened sexiness," and less fidelity to a continuous narrative across multiple acts. (Patinkin & Patinkin, 2008, p. 56). Later, Richmond was involved in a lurid theater scandal when she contested the will of Boston banker and theater owner John Stetson as his long-lost wife. Although Stetson may have been a bigamist, Richmond lost the suit when her own string of earlier marriages (and lack of divorces) were revealed. *OCLC* locates only two copies. This copy seemingly as issued; both holdings recorded in *OCLC* (JHU Sheridan and BYU) for this cover; neither holding has this photograph. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 438149

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Adah Richmond s Songs. Only In Fun: Ladies ...

Verlag: F.W. Helmick, 278 W. Sixth St, Cincinnati, Ohio

Erscheinungsdatum: 1875

Einband: Softcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1. Auflage