Something for the weekend. The song A Little Tin Box from the 1959 musical Fiorello. Judging from the current state of national politics in this country, it is amazing how little changes over time regarding political corruption and abuse of power. Loosely based on the life of Fiorello Enrico La Guardia, the legendary Depression era Republican mayor of New York City, the play won a Pulitzer.
A Little Tin Box
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Thanks for the memories. I was away from the New Jersey/New York area and in the Army during the time Fiorello was on Broadway but listening to the music and reading biographies of Mr. La Guardia took me pleasantly back in time and place. The Little Tin Box is not La Guardia’s, about whom there was not a whiff of the Clintonesque, but the exculpatory stratagem of those who feared the newly elected reformer.
Ha, that’s good. I really enjoy Howard DaSilva, he was a great Ben Franklin in the film version of 1776: https://youtu.be/ds4dv4IS0PM
He was one of the great talents of the Golden Age of Hollywood making even minor parts, Duff Armstrong for example in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), memorable. He played a great villain as Martin Garth opposite Gary Cooper in Demille’s Unconquered (1947).