You're Lucky If You're Killed: Including Full Text & Music of the 1933 War Play You're Lucky If You're Killed
Language: English
Published by iUniverse, 2003
- Hardcover
- Used





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iUniverse, Published 2003. Hardcover, xxv, 149 pp.; 24 cm; cloth issue, published simultaneously with a paperback; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, facsimiles of documents and newspaper advertisements, and printed music. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Blue boards, gilt lettering on spine. Light bumping to edges and corners. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket, sepia portrait of Craig to front panel and a blue-toned view of him at the Sphinx in Egypt to rear, has light bumping to edges and mild shelf wear. Not price clipped, priced $25.95. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Norman McLeod Craig was a nineteen-year-old medical student at Queen's when he attested to the Canadian Expeditionary Force in March 1915, served in Egypt with the Royal Army Medical Corps, and finished the war as a flight commander in the Royal Naval Air Service. In 1932, out of patience with a Fergus town council that had deferred a war memorial for seventeen years, he wrote a war play and staged it himself in June 1933 with a local cast, at least seventy-five percent of gross receipts going to the memorial fund. His grandson, a Hollywood writer and director, prints the text and music here for the first time, with Craig's attestation papers, wartime photographs, the newspaper advertisements, and the program for the 1935 Dawn Parade that finally unveiled the monument. Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; Assorted First World War Documents; Photographs; The Royal Edward; You're Lucky If You're Killed; The Performances; Glossary; You're Lucky If You're Killed (the play text); Main Characters; The Music; The Dawn Parade; The Parade Program; The Legacy; Document Appendix.…
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- Title
- You're Lucky If You're Killed: Including Full Text & Music of the 1933 War Play You're Lucky If You're Killed
- Author
- J. Marshall Craig; Norman McLeod Craig
- Publisher
- iUniverse
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0595659853
- ISBN 13
- 9780595659852
- Item weight
- 15 ounces
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Seller catalogs
- History
The play itself--one of Canada's first--has never been seen again, despite some attempts in the early 1950s to resurrect & publish the work. Craig wanted people to remember the war dead, not his own actions, which he described as a "a small, overdue payment on a large debt."
In this book, Dr. Craig's grandson--a Hollywood-based writer and film director--makes public for the first time in 70 years the original text &music of the play, as well as an overview of the events that sparked its creation.
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