Oh, Boy!: You Never Knew About Me

New York: T.B. Harms, Circa 1917. Original sheet music for the song "You Never Knew About Me," from the 1917 musical "Oh, Boy!"

Basis for the 1919 silent film directed by Albert Capellani. A hapless young man elopes with a judge's daughter, and must subsequently win over her serious-minded parents and his own Quaker aunt.

The third wildly popular Broadway musical written by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, following "Miss Springtime" (1916) and "Leave It to Jane" (1917). The play made its Broadway debut at the Princess Theatre in February 1917, and later transferred to the Casino Theatre to finish a successful run of 463 performances.

10.5 x 13.75 inches. Six pages (one folded leaf and one inserted leaf). Very Good, Front wrapper neatly detached, with a few short closed tears to the bottom edges and fore-edges, otherwise complete.

[Book #149910]