originally posted on September 6, 2023 I have another piece of sheet music I would like to share with you. This sheet music is based on the 1911 vaudeville comedy “The Red Rose”, written by Harry B. and Robert B. Smith and music by Robert Hood Bowers. The show featured Valeska Suratt. I do not…

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Originally posted April 27, 2020. I recently obtained sheet music for the song “When Broadway was a Pasture”.  According to “The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville” by Anthony Slide, in December 1910, Valeska starred in her own 30 minute mini-revue at Hammerstein’s Victoria Theatre titled “Bouffe Variety.” Her leading man was Fletcher Norton (her one time husband).…

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