MUSIC TOWN by Stuart Wade

Here we have some old sheet music published by the Keith Prowse & Co. Ltd. located in London, England in 1947. Unfortunately I can't find any definitive information about the company other than this listing at Wikipedia which says nothing about sheet music. Thus, I don't know if the Wikipedia post is actually about this company. I haven't found anything about the composer Stuart Wade.






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I do enjoy the little "people" made from notes. The music was obviously meant for children.

Montez H. Lawton SILHOUETTE

On March 26, 1944 Montez Lawton went to see the musical Blossom Time at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco with a man named Stewart. The program from the presentation is glued into her scrapbook. Inside the program I found this in a small envelope. I can only guess that at some point that evening they found an artist, perhaps at the theatre or a restaurant, that did silhouettes.

BLOB PEOPLE IN THE PARK after dark

The artist who worked on this must have been bored adding the color to the audience. They skipped around as if playing Chess for the first time. Red here, blue here, and then "what the heck do I do with the pukey lemon/lime color?" One poor woman, in the middle got an orange coat and a puckey lemon/lime face and hair. The pukey lemon/lime seems to have been the most odd color to use. And I'm not sure, but I believe there is a floating lemon/lime jello mold floating above the chorus on stage. The flag is most certainly an artist's rendering.

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This is truly a very odd odd world that was created in this image. The Blob people in the park.

This is a Curt Teich Linen card distributed by Aero Distributing Co., Inc., Chicago, Illinois. I'm not finding anything about Aero; a lot of cards, but no historical information.

To see other nighttime postcards click here, here, and here; all inspired by the book Postcards of the Night: Views of American Cities.