Embedded Files
from the musical production "Ask Dad" ("Oh, My Dear!")
Music by Louis Achille Hirsch
Lyric by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
1918
Origin : https://www.loc.gov/item/2016731532/
Origin : https://www.loc.gov/item/2016759313/
Comment
In the short story "Jeeves and the Chump Cyril" (also published as "A Letter of Introduction") a friend of Bertie Wooster work on the musical comedy "Ask Dad".ย
By an extraordinary coincidence, P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton wrote, in 1918,ย the book of a musical comedy initially named "Ask Dad"ย which was put in music by Louis A. Hirsch. According to Wodehouse's biography by Robert McCrum, the title of the musical was changed for "Oh, My Dear!" during the out-of-town trials. The scores of the first four vocals of the show were initially published as numbers of the "Ask Dad" musical production.
The two titles used to illustrate the show are those selected for a Medley recorded in 1919 by Victor Talking Machine Co.
After I had got him out of his dungeon-cell, he and old George had gone off together, as chummy as brothers, to watch the afternoon rehearsal of "Ask Dad".
Death at the Excelsior. Jeeves and the Chump Cyril
The Inimitable Jeeves. 9 A Letter of Introduction
'[...] Yes, it's rather funny, considering what I came to tell you. Jolly old Caffyn has given me a small part in that musical comedy of his, 'Ask Dad.' Only a bit, you know, but quite tolerably ripe.
Death at the Excelsior. Jeeves and the Chump Cyril
The Inimitable Jeeves. 9 A Letter of Introduction
'[...] There's an early rehearsal of 'Ask Dad' to-morrow morning, and I must be toddling. Rummy the thing should be called 'Ask Dad,' when that's just what I'm not going to do. See what I mean, what, what?
Death at the Excelsior. Jeeves and the Chump Cyril
The Inimitable Jeeves. 9 A Letter of Introduction
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse