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    The Passing Show of 1918 is a Broadway musical revue featuring music of Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz (and other songwriters), with book and lyrics...
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    Al Jolson). Most of the Shubert shows were staged by J. C. Huffman. The Passing Show of 1916 The Passing Show of 1918 Browne, Pat. The guide to United...
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    The Passing Show of 1916 is a revue featuring the music of Sigmund Romberg and Otto Motzan, with book and lyrics by Harold Atteridge. It included the...
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    The Passing Show of 1918, and it was introduced by Helen Carrington. The copyright to "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" was registered in 1919 by the Kendis-Brockman...
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    Adele Astaire (category American expatriates in the Republic of Ireland)
    Metropolitan Opera and on Broadway. Adele and Fred performed in The Passing Show of 1918, which ran for 125 performances. Astaire was given an opening solo...
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  • "Smiles" (Hitomi Shimatani song), 2009 "Smiles" (1917 song), from The Passing Show of 1918 Smiles (musical), a 1930 Broadway musical with music by Vincent...
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    Fred Astaire (category Members of The Lambs Club)
    with several more shows. Of their work in The Passing Show of 1918, Heywood Broun wrote: "In an evening in which there was an abundance of good dancing, Fred...
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    long-running productions such as The Passing Show of 1918, The Demi-Virgin, Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath, and Battling Buttler. One of his most famous stage hits...
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  • This is a complete list of the songs introduced by Fred Astaire beginning with his first Broadway show Over the Top in 1917 (his childhood and teenage...
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    pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in the state of Kansas in the United States, with...
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    Nita Naldi (category American people of Irish descent)
    her brother Frank, and by 1918, she was performing as a chorus girl at the Winter Garden Theatre in The Passing Show of 1918. Her appearance in that Broadway...
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  • he demonstrates the piano by playing a roll for the song "Smiles" from The Passing Show of 1918, the Fortunes' normally solemn butler Marvin begins to...
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    Winter Garden Theatre (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    Juliet, Macbeth, and Troilus and Cressida. Including The Passing Show of 1916 and The Passing Show of 1918 West Side Story premiered in 1957 and was revived...
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  • including "Gasoline" (1913), "Smiles" (used in The Passing Show of 1918), and more notoriously to modern ears, the 1917 song "Ching Chong". "Smiles", for which...
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  • This is a chronological listing of Fred Astaire stage, motion picture, radio, and television performances. The following color-coding is used for these...
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    "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles," which was introduced in the musical revue The Passing Show of 1918, which he wrote with James Brockman, James Kendis, and...
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    Sigmund Romberg (category People from the Kingdom of Hungary)
    dance music. At the same time, Romberg contributed songs to the Shuberts' popular revues The Passing Show of 1916 and The Passing Show of 1918 and to two vehicles...
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    Jean Schwartz (category Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States)
    The Passing Show of 1913. The same creative trio was later re-united to create The Passing Show of 1918, The Passing Show of 1919, The Passing Show of...
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    The Passing Show of 1918 (revue) The Passing Show of 1921 (revue) – Willie played Sammy, and the brothers performed their "Rigoletto Quartette" The Passing...
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  • 200 shows, mostly for the Shubert Brothers. Many of them were musical revues, musicals or operettas. He is known for The Passing Show series of revues...
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  • presented by Lee Shubert and J. J. Shubert. The Squab Farm featured in The Passing Show of 1918, a revue that included a young Fred Astaire as well as his sister...
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    Jessie Reed (category Date of birth unknown)
    appeared in the Shubert production "The Passing Show of 1917" in New York City and later "The Passing Show of 1918." She was a showgirl at the Winter Garden...
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  • a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1918. 1918 in British music 1918 in Norwegian music 1918 in country music 1918 in jazz...
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    World War I (redirect from 1914-1918)
    War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or...
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  • George M. Cohan, Louis A. Hirsch The Passing Show of 1913 (1913); music also by Al W. Brown The Passing Show of 1918 (1918); music also by Sigmund Romberg...
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    Violet Englefield (category Actors from the London Borough of Hounslow)
    same play at the Aldwych Theatre. On Broadway her appearances included Gussie Pope in Fancy Free (1918), The Passing Show of 1918 at the Winter Garden...
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    The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History is a 1916 racist and pseudoscientific book by American lawyer, anthropologist,...
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    Lambert Murphy (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
    Machine Company. One well-known recorded hit was "Smiles" from The Passing Show of 1918 and was popular during World War I. Lambert performed and recorded...
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    1918 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in July 1918: Eight tons of TNT...
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    The German revolution of 1918–1919, also known as the November Revolution (German: Novemberrevolution), was an uprising started by workers and soldiers...
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