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PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today in Theatre History: DECEMBER 7 by David Gewirtzman, Robert Viagas, Anne Bradley, Christopher Reichheld, Sam Maher

1879 Composer Rudolf Friml (1879-1972) is born in Prague. He will emigrate to the U.S. and become one of the top Broadway operetta composers of the 1910s and 1920s. His works will include The Firefly, Rose-Marie, The Vagabond King, The Three Musketeers and two editions of The Ziegfeld Follies(1921 and 1923).

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on December 7, 2014 ☆ ⚑

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