Special Service presents Room Service. A Farce in Three Acts. [theatrical program]
Published by [1942-1943], 1942
- Used
Seller: Monkey House Books, Miller Place, NY, U.S.A.Monkey House Books
AbeBooks seller since August 25, 2008
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 74.14
Quantity: 1 available
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This play produced by Special Service, SOS, NATOUSA Entertainment Branch. Single-page folded theatrical program from a USO performance in North Africa early in the war. Cast with brief biographies includes several actors-turned-servicemen and 2 actresses courtesy of USO-Camp. Shows, Inc., namely Brooke Fleming and Virginia Robinson. Directed by George Abbott, theatrical and film producer whose career spanned 8 decades. Room Service was a 1937 screwball comedy about show business set in the White Way Hotel in New York City. It was the basis for the 1938 Marx Brothers film and was remade as Step Lively in 1944 with George Murphy and Frank Sinatra. Playwright John Murray served as a Captain in the Signal Corps during the war. Unusual piece of World War II ephemera, from the estate of a veteran. Creased, folded.
Seller Inventory # 11168
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Special Service presents Room Service. A Farce in Three Acts. [theatrical program]
- Author
- John Murray and Allen Boretz.
- Publisher
- [1942-1943]
- Publication year
- 1942
- Condition
- Very Good.
- Binding
- No binding.
- Seller catalogs
- Drama, Theatre, Film
Monkey House Books
Miller Place, NY, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since August 25, 2008
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