[lit-ideas] Re: The Better 'Ole
- From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:45:18 -0700
On Mar 26, 2013, at 8:06 AM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
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>
> "The Better 'Ole, also called The Romance of Old Bill, is an Edwardian
> musical comedy with a book by Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliott, music by
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> Herman Darewski, and lyrics by Percival Knight and James Heard, based on the
> cartoon character Old Bill, an infantryman, drawn by Bairnsfather."
>
> where "cartoon" may need an explicature or not.
>
The cartoon--an early copy is on my reading room wall--is by Bairns
Bairnsfather:
http://tinyurl.com/c5o5v82
David Ritchie,
thinking Donal needs a treat from the store, possibly Moostruck Chocolates,
in Portland, Oregon
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