recently read an intriguing book

Posted by J.D. (A) on May 6, 2007 at 10:24:52

In Reply to: Sukey Tawdry, Jenny Diver Polly Peachum, Lucy Brown posted by violinist3 on May 5, 2007 at 16:51:04:

Rumored to be inspired by the sensational murder of one 'Mary Rogers' in New York City in the 19th century....

A new study of which :
Author : Stashower, Daniel.
Title : The beautiful cigar girl : Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the invention of murder / by Daniel Stashower.
Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Dutton, c2006.

"... examination of a celebrated murder in 1840s New York City that turned Edgar Allan Poe into an amateur sleuth. The text ably weaves the story of a young woman, celebrated for her beauty and her untimely death, with that of Poe, whose poems and stories often celebrated the deaths of young, beautiful women. Mary Rogers worked behind the counter of a cigar store in Manhattan in 1841; she was so beautiful that the store was jammed with her admirers. On July 28, 1831, three days after Rogers had gone missing, her body was found floating in the Hudson. The press seized on her murder, but the New York police force (depicted by Stashower as completely disorganized) failed to find her killer. One year later, Poe (just after the success of his detective Dupin in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue") proposed to his publisher that he investigate this famous cold case..." (( BookList 2006 ))

Poe eventually crafted his version into his "The Mystery Of Marie Roget", a fictional re-embroidery of the events surrounding the killing.

And the Weill / Brecht version ---if it is a version---- is said to take on known Berlin demimonde personalities, but sticks with the same watery / bloody death scenario .......

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Topic - Sukey Tawdry, Jenny Diver Polly Peachum, Lucy Brown - violinist3 16:51:04 05/05/07 (16)

Are there any other musicals/plays by Kurt weil? - violinist3 16:33:50 05/06/07 (4)

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I just found my 1954 Broadway TPO - violinist3 17:11:06 05/06/07 (2)

i actually SAW that performance off-broadway - michael kaplan 18:38:11 05/06/07 (1)

Yes thats the one - violinist3 19:02:36 05/06/07 (0)

recently read an intriguing book - J.D. 10:24:52 05/06/07 (0)

Yeah, great lyrics, music ... the lot! :-)) ... - andyr 19:38:41 05/05/07 (1)

I saw Sting as MacHeath... - Jay F 22:20:07 05/05/07 (0)

I listen to the 1976 Lincoln Center production a lot... - Jay F 18:53:10 05/05/07 (0)

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