Re: THE ETERNAL ROAD--a gevalt find!

[Carol Freeman <tsipra...>]

Robert -

So sorry to hear about your mother - I remember she was ill at the time of the
Mountain Jewish event in New York. But feel good knowing that you were there
for her when she needed you.

Carol

Robert Cohen wrote:

> Some of you know that, sadly, I lost my mother a few months ago.  With my
> father long gone, that's occasioned (again, sadly) a thorough
> cleaning/clearing up of our family home in Queens.
>
> And what a find I found in our basement, underneath the piano sheet music I
> played as a child:  an *original* program, with the front cover separated
> (but still here!) and maybe the back cover gone, of THE ETERNAL ROAD, as
> produced at the Manhattan Opera House--and autographed, for some odd reason
> (!), by my Dad with the date of May 37 (no date)!
>
> It's a 33-page-plus large-size program book, complete with photos, cast and
> credits, and essays about some of the principals, including an extended
> essay on Max Reinhardt (:  "The Man and the Artist") by Louis Nizer!  Plus
> an unsigned, for some reason, essay on Kurt Weill's music.
>
> Just a gevalt, all around, and sitting there these many decades.  Just
> thought folks here, given our extended discussion a while back of the
> revived production in Brooklyn, would want to know.  I wonder how
> easy/difficult/impossible it is to secure a copy of this program book!
>
> --Robert Cohen
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