ANTIQUE SONGSHEET WITH WEAR AS EXPECTED, but still complete and bound. As seen, the pages are age-toned, there are 10 leaves including the front and rear covers (8 leaves, 16 pages between the covers). It has music for 4 songs: The Bowery, The Chaperone, the Widow, Rueben & Cynthia, Be Sure and Try This on Your Piano, and But Yesterday. There is a small horizontal tear for several of the interior leaves starting middle of fore edges. There are chunks missing from the upper fore edge corner on the 9th and 10th leaves (the 10th leaf is the back cover). The paper is very fragile; the interior paper is of a bit lower quality compared to the covers.
"A Trip to Chinatown is a musical comedy in three acts with a book by Charles H. Hoyt, music by Percy Gaunt and lyrics by Hoyt. In addition to the Gaunt and Hoyt score, many songs were interpolated into the score at one time or another during the run, as was fashionable for musicals of the era. The story concerns a widow who accidentally maneuvers two young suburban couples into a big city restaurant and brings romance to them and herself. It is loosely based on an 1835 English one-act farce, A Day Well Spent, by John Oxenford." (Wikipedia)
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