# Can anyone find anything about this old play/musical? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 16, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-find-anything-about-this-old-play-musical/942236 "2021-05-16T19:22:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-find-anything-about-this-old-play-musical/942236/1 "2021-05-16T19:22:43Z")
Flyer posted in a local history Facebook group. From 1935. No title given, unless the title is _All Star Cast_. I’ve had no luck with googling some of the character names and descriptions (like “Modernistic Misses.”) [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/Lcwiloq.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/KAGtEbP) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-find-anything-about-this-old-play-musical/942236/2 "2021-05-16T19:28:27Z")
Crazy Politics? Running Wild? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-find-anything-about-this-old-play-musical/942236/3 "2021-05-16T19:46:09Z")
Wow, that is profoundly obscure. (You were right, I think, before you edited to add the second guess.) Almost no internet footprint at all for this. Learning that it was “[A Universal Production](https://books.google.com/books?id=BNFDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA309&dq=%22Crazy+Politics%22+play&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi7xdzC-M7wAhUUHM0KHcsSBVkQ6AEwAXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Crazy%20Politics%22%20play&f=false)” helped a bit, but even then the best I could find was an OCR of a newspaper mention contemporary to the play: > The initial rehearsal of the cast of “Crazy Politics,” a 3-act comedy … a Universal Master Stage Show, was especially written for community production. It will include a cast of 125 well-known men and women, chosen for their ability to act, sing and dance. The play is said to be a screamingly funny comedy built on a political situation in a small town. The scene of the show is laid in the “People’s Party” headquarters in the city of Centeryille. The People’s party is running a woman candidate for mayor in order to have a dignified campaign. However, the candidate fails to appear and a newspaper reporter is drafted to masquerade in her place. In addition to a cast of 100 men and women, there will be a girls’ group, composed of twenty-five high school and junior college students, who will take part in the dancing choruses required for the production. Twenty-five well-known business and professional men will take part in a “Caucus.” Another scene will feature a number of women singers in a “syncopated rally.” The play is reported to have been staged throughout the United States with huge success. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-find-anything-about-this-old-play-musical/942236/4 "2021-05-16T19:48:39Z")
Yep _Crazy Politics_. Synopsis starts on [p 1 bottom of the third column](http://newspapers.rawson.lib.mi.us/chronicle/ccc1935%20(E)/issues/05-10-1935.pdf). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2021, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-find-anything-about-this-old-play-musical/942236/5 "2021-05-16T19:48:56Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Wow, that is profoundly obscure. (You were right, I think, before you edited to add the second guess.) I’d added the second one because it _also_ looks right, as seen [here](https://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15078coll17/id/10453/) and [here](https://digmichnews.cmich.edu/cgi-bin/michigan?a=d&d=WashtenawSREP19600217.1.2&e=-------en-10--1--txt-txIN----------).