The insitution that is BROADWAY, U. S. A., has always been probably the greatest single source of popular music for the hit parade lists and the lips of America and the world.
Ever since the great Gershwin shows of the thirties, such as Porgy and Bess, marked the end of the era of the Viennese and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas as the only musical programs in our theatres, the strictly American art form - the big brassy musical - has consistently given us the bulk of our popular.