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Beer In Ads #373: The Prince of Pilsen

May 19, 2011 By Jay Brooks

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Thursday’s ad may in fact not actually be an ad. It could just as easily be sheet music or the Playbill from a show. But the “Prince of Pilsen” sounds like a great title for a musical. I wonder why the woman on the left is dressed like the United States?

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  1. John Ahrens says

    May 23, 2011 at 12:49 pm

    Prince of Pilsen, The (Google it for MUCH more…)

    The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak | 700+ words | © The Oxford Companion to American Theatre 2004, originally published by Oxford University Press 2004. (Hide copyright information) Copyright
    Prince of Pilsen, The (1903), a musical by Frank Pixley (book, lyrics), Gustav Luders (music). [Broadway Theatre, 143 perf.] The Cincinnati brewer Hans Wagner ( John W. Ransome) arrives in Nice with his daughter, Nellie ( Lillian Coleman), to visit his son, Tom ( Albert Parr), who is serving there with the American navy. Prince Carl Otto of Pilsen ( Arthur Donaldson) is booked into the same hotel. When Hans is confused for the royal guest, the prince takes advantage of the confusion to go out on the town incognito. He meets and falls in love with Nellie. By the end of the evening Nellie is on her way to becoming a princess, while both her father and brother have also made romantic attachments. Notable songs: The Heidelberg Stein Song; The Message of the Violet. Henry W. Savage produced this, the best of the many Pixley‐Luders collaborations, and it continued to tour successfully for over a decade. Part of its popularity may have stemmed from the fact that while it was an operetta it essentially employed the American‐in‐foreign‐lands theme that had only recently become the rage of musical comedy.

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