July 16, 2025
Tag: The Desert Song
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The Desert Song
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Postcard History’s poster series continues with an eye-popping poster card from the 1927 London production of The Desert Song. This widely successful operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II was inspired by the 1925 uprising of the Riffs, a group of Moroccan fighters, against French colonial rule. It was also inspired by…
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A single postcard reveals how the lives of two people can be so entwined, yet without consequence. The story of British Army Private James Gibson could just as easily be told on-stage or on-screen, but all we have is a single postcard that expresses a misty wish.