It's cold outside, although I think the weather has warmed up since my trek downtown.
I saw Jo and Emily Loesser, both of whom I love a great deal, and I learned at the NYPL a bit more about a comedy from 1924, THE MERRY WIVES OF GOTHAM, which starred Laura Hope Crews as an Irish washerwoman living in shantytown and Grace George as a Park Avenue socialite in the year 1873. Part of the charm of the play is that the ladies, who have a friendly relationship, never learn that they are actually sisters separated in Ireland 40 years earlier. Victor Herbert wrote a glorious Irish song, "Heart O'Mine," for the comedy. It was sung by Mary Ellis, who one year later became a star playing the title role in the operetta ROSE-MARIE.
