Many Years ago I was given a number of Musical Monologues
Recitations with Musical accompaniment Published by Reynolds and Co these were later purchased by EMI who did have a number of these in a filing cabinet in Camberwell SE London which I purchased. All Victorian or later. I was pleased to purchase another yesterday at an Antiques Fair which was written in 1921 "The Cinema Serial" performed by Bert Graham and written by Leonard Pounds. This one is published by Herman Darewski Music Publishing. Only a small number in this collection however.
These Monologues are very clever indeed some very funny, some very sad, some full of death and dying normally ending with a moral.
I wondered if anyone else was interested in this subject. Many years ago Jim Farr (Jim the Poet) and I used to perform these, We did Sidmouth for a couple of years.
Al