Show boat [antikvár]

FOREWORD A FOREWORD for Show Boát from this unpractised pen can only be, when all ís said, merely an after-word. From the casual reference to a river show boát, rnade to Edna Ferber somé ten years ago by that gallant gentleman of the theatre, Winthrop Ames, to this moment, Show Boát has been foreworded almost continuously. The növel is still selling in practically every civilized country in the world. It has been published in the United States, England, Francé, Italy, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Russia, Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary and Flolland. During those ten years there has hardly been a week in which the book, play, radio, musical or somé other version has not been actively moving in this and other countries. The musical version, fashioned with distinction by my friend and collaborator Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, played with conspicuous success for over three years, including a memorable revival; it has been on the radio as the Show Boát Hour for the past three years and is still flourishing weekly; a silent motion picture and one with sound have been made of it, and we are at the moment working on an operatic film version for Universal. Many agreeable things have been said of the music of Show Boát, and Mr. Hammerstein's verses for the song uOP Man River" have, on more than one occasion, been made the theses of sermons from the pulpit. Show boats, I mean the actual craft, were revived