BETTY

Composer: Paul Rubens
Lyricists: Adrian Ross; Paul Rubens

Opened: April 24, 1915, Daly’s Theatre, London; October 3, 1916, Globe Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 391 (London); 63 (N.Y.C.)

Note: Unknown selections also appear on 78/HMV C413 (Mayfair Orchestra); 78/HMV C414 (Mayfair Orchestra); and 78/EB Winner 2858 (Royal Court Orchestra).

Barcarolle (used in the London production only):

1. 78/HMV C596 (Light Opera Company)


Can It Be Love? (used in the London production only):

1. 78/HMV C 656 (Bessie Jones (as Aimee Maxwell) with orchestral accompaniment)
2. 78/HMV C596 (Light Opera Company)


Cinderella (L: Adrian Ross):

1. 78/HMV B563 (Bessie Jones (as Aimee Maxwell) with orchestral accompaniment) [also 78/HMV B3142]


Dance With Me (L: Percy Greenbank):

1. 78/HMV B493 (Bessie Jones (as Doris Cowan) and George Baker with orchestra conducted by C.B. Yearsley) [also 78/HMV 2-4284]


The Duchess Of Dreams:

1. 78/HMV C596 (Light Opera Company)


Here Comes The Groom (M/L: Benj. Hapgood Burt):

1. 78/Victor 55080 (Raymond Hitchcock with orchestra) [reissued on Music From The New York Stage Vol. 3: 1913-1917, CD/Pearl GEMM CDS 9056-8]


I Love The Girls (L: Adrian Ross):

1. 78/HMV C596 (Light Opera Company)


If It Were True (M: Ernest Steffan; L: Merlin Morgan):

1. 78/HMV C596 (Light Opera Company)


I’m Jotte, The Dressmaker:

1. 78/HMV C596 (Light Opera Company)


Opposite The Ducks (used in the London production only):

1. 78/HMV C596 (Light Opera Company)


The Right Side And The Wrong Side (used in the London production only):

1. 78/HMV C596 (Light Opera Company)


Some Time (Sometime) (M: Harry Tierney; L: William Jerome):

1. 78/Victor 55080 (Raymond Hitchcock and Male Quartet with orchestra) [reissued on Music From The New York Stage Vol. 3: 1913-1917, CD/Pearl GEMM CDS 9056-8]
2. 78/Emerson 7132 (Vernon Dalhart with piano and violins)


Waltz:

1. 78/HMV C414 (Mayfair Orchestra)
2. 78/Columbia 553 (London Revue Orchestra)


We Ought To Combine (used in the London production only):

1. 78/HMV C596 (Light Opera Company)
2. Edwardian Favourites, Marble Arch (M) MAL 618 (Stanford Robinson conducting the Pro Arte Orchestra)


We’ve Got Some Work To Do:

1. When I Am Twenty-One (When You Grow To Be Twenty-One; titled “When I Was Twenty-One” out of town) (M: Jean Schwartz; L: Edgar Leslie)


Unrecorded Material:

Dance
Eyes Have A Language (Of Their Own) (M: Silvio Hein; L: Benjamin Hapgood Burt)
Finale (Act 1)
Finale (Act 2)
Finale (Act 3)
High Life Down Stairs (Opening Chorus)
I Feel So Happy (L: Adrian Ross)
The Little Harlequin
On A Saturday Afternoon (L: Adrian Ross)
Opening Chorus (Act 3)