Ex-Library; 14 oz.; 197 pages; 1st Printing Ex library HC no DJ Outside of spine has been partially repaired with tape. Solid/clean reading copy '54 Thomas Y. Crowell. A whole melodic pageant moves through the pages of this book. It is portrayed through the lives of sixteen men of the American musical stage. In a sense this book is history, for in the lives of these sixteen men it is possible to read the entire story of musical comedy in America.