[=SDC=] Toughie #4

[Aaron J Dinkin]

: Add another name to this list such that it is consistent and
: meaningful: Anita Loos, Margaret Langdon, Edna Ferber, and ?

Frances Hodgson Burnett.

(All four are women who have written novels on which a well-known Broadway
musical was based: respectively, _Gentlemen Prefer Blonds_, _Anna and the
King of Siam_ [which became _The King and I], _Show Boat_, and _The Secret
Garden_.)

-Aaron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom

[Garry J. Vass]

Aaron J Dinkin <din...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote in message
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Booked and recorded.

We had Maria Von Trapp (Novel and subsequent Broadway hit, "The Sound of
Music"). But Frances Hodgson Burnett is a winner also. Well done, Aaron.

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[Laura F Spira]

"Garry J. Vass" wrote:

Big quibble: since when is the Secret Garden a *well known* Broadway musical?

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[Aaron J Dinkin]

Laura F Spira <la...@dragonspira.u-net.com> wrote:

> "Garry J. Vass" wrote:
>
>> Aaron J Dinkin <din...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote in message
>> news:8m9sfo$b1$1...@news.fas.harvard.edu...
>>
>> > : Add another name to this list such that it is consistent and
>> > : meaningful: Anita Loos, Margaret Langdon, Edna Ferber, and ?
>> >
>> > Frances Hodgson Burnett.
>> >
>> > (All four are women who have written novels on which a well-known Broadway
>> > musical was based: respectively, _Gentlemen Prefer Blonds_, _Anna and the
>> > King of Siam_ [which became _The King and I], _Show Boat_, and _The Secret
>> > Garden_.)
>>
>> Booked and recorded.
>>
>> We had Maria Von Trapp (Novel and subsequent Broadway hit, "The Sound of
>> Music"). But Frances Hodgson Burnett is a winner also. Well done, Aaron.
>

> Big quibble: since when is the Secret Garden a *well known* Broadway musical?

Ah, I thought of this objection, so I prepared alternative answers just in
case:

Baroness Orczy, for _The Scarlet Pimpernel_
C. Y. Lee, for _Flower Drum Song_

I didn't think of _The Sound of Music_, I'm ashamed to say. But I'm not
the best judge of the well-knownness of Broadway musicals; _The Secret
Garden_ is better known to me than _Gentlemen Prefer Blondes_, at any
rate.

[K. Edgcombe]

In article <8m9sfo$b1$1...@news.fas.harvard.edu>,

Aaron J Dinkin <din...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
>(All four are women who have written novels on which a well-known Broadway
>musical was based: respectively, _Gentlemen Prefer Blonds_,

Really? Only a rather particular sort of gentleman....

Katy

[Aaron J Dinkin]

K. Edgcombe <ke...@cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

Sorry, there was a typo on the page I found this information on. _Blondes_
it is.

[Mike]

In article <8m9ue9$c08$1...@apple.news.easynet.net>, Garry J. Vass
<ga...@totally-official.com> writes

>Aaron J Dinkin <din...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote in message
>news:8m9sfo$b1$1...@news.fas.harvard.edu...
>> : Add another name to this list such that it is consistent and
>> : meaningful: Anita Loos, Margaret Langdon, Edna Ferber, and ?
>>
>> Frances Hodgson Burnett.
>>

>> (All four are women who have written novels on which a well-known Broadway

>> musical was based: respectively, _Gentlemen Prefer Blonds_, _Anna and the
>> King of Siam_ [which became _The King and I], _Show Boat_, and _The Secret
>> Garden_.)
>>
>
>Booked and recorded.

For the first Totally Correct answer to this question, Aaron J Dinkin
has been awarded one Touabire. Congratulations!

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