FLOWERS THAT BLOOM IN THE SPRING! (1895)
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From an 1895 issue of Brooklyn Life magazine comes this hopeful look forward to that year’s Spring through the words of The Mikado’s “The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring (Tra-la).”
The Mikado was about to enjoy a revival at The Savoy Theatre that year, and all indications were that it was a smashing success.
“If the enthusiastic applause with which The Mikado was received last night at the Savoy Theatre is any criterion of success,” the New York Times wrote, “the revival of Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan’s popular opera should lead to as long a run as it achieved on its first production.”
Brooklyn Life produced this drawing of six women (“flowers that bloom in the spring”) dressed in what appears to be costumes appropriate for the Spring. According to the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS), Brooklyn Life chronicled “the social and economic life of Brooklyn from 1890 to 1931.”
The BHS continues: “Looking through the issues one can see in the early issues the importance of bicycles, but at the turn of the century the emphasis turns toward the automobile. Other topics of the magazine include fashion trends, advertisements by Brooklyn businesses, real estate developments in up-and-coming neighborhoods like Flatbush and Ditmas Park, photographs of the then new construction in those areas, documentation of the move from Brownstone Brooklyn into as yet undeveloped Brooklyn.”
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