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GERSHWIN (GEORGE)
Autograph musical quotation, signed and inscribed "With Best wishes/ from your Composer/ George Gershwin", [Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane, London, Autumn 1924]; together with a newspaper clipping and two postcards (small collection)

27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
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GERSHWIN (GEORGE)

Autograph musical quotation, signed and inscribed "With Best wishes/ from your Composer/ George Gershwin", of two bars in E flat Major [the opening of 'Isn't It Wonderful', the chorus concluding the first act of his musical Primrose], on card, very light browning but overall in good and attractive condition, 60 x 92mm., [Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane, London, Autumn 1924]; together with a newspaper clipping and two postcards (small collection)

Footnotes

'BEST WISHES FROM YOUR COMPOSER' – the young George Gershwin doffs his cap to one of his leading ladies, quoting his song 'Isn't It Wonderful', dating from the same year as Rhapsody in Blue and Lady, Be Good.

With this card is a newspaper cutting, datable to 1929, reporting the secret romance and wedding of 'West End leading lady' Margery Hicklin to Leon Heron, artist son of an Australian financier (two of whose postcards are also included). In 1924 Miss Hicklin had starred as Joan in Gershwin's musical Primrose, opening at the Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane, on 11 September 1924 and running for 255 performances. Our card must date before the end of the year, prior to Gershwin's return to America for the Broadway premiere of Lady, Be Good on 1 December 1924. (Recordings of several numbers sung by Miss Hicklin as Joan are extant.) The card remains in possession of the family.

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