Item no. 30105
| 1947 |
| New York |
| Occupation: Retail and wholesale - department stores, grocery stores, warehouses |
| Collection: Wagner Labor Archives |
Bill Judd of Hearn's shipping department plays the leading man, Jess in "Thursdays Till Nine," a musical show written by Henry Foner and Norman Franklin and commissioned by the Department Store Employee's Union, CIO. Unlike "Pins and Needles," which was a musical revue written by Harold Rome and produced by the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, this was a "book musical," depicting the lives of the union's members.
The image accompanies songs from "Thursdays Till Nine" in Henry Foner: Songs and Poems (For Better or Verse), Labor Arts, New York, 2013.
See also the exhibit Play it Again, Sam - Songs of the Labor and Progressive Moments of the 1940s.
See the Pins and Needles booklet cover about a musical revue written by Harold Rome as mentioned above.
From CIO News, November 24, 1947.
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