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“East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)” was featured in the 1935 production of the Triangle Club show Stags at Bay, before reaching the number one spot on the Lucky Strike Hit Parade that same year.  “East of the sun, and west of the moon, we’ll build a dream house of love, dear.”  Since then, this song has been recorded by such artists as Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, and Diana Krall.  Brooks Bowman ’36 wrote the music and lyrics for “East of the Sun” and three other songs in Stags at Bay, and was lyricist for two other numbers in the show.  A full third of the music for the 1936 Triangle production, What a Relief!, was contributed by this extraordinarily promising songwriter whom the press equated in talent to Cole Porter. Bowman died tragically in an automobile accident only four days before his twenty-fourth birthday.

• For more song lyric quotations, see quotation #1 and 2.
  
  
• To learn more about the Triangle Club, see icon #4 and 10, quotation #1, 22, and 37, and Café Vivian picture #5, 13, 42, 82, 103, 115, and 130.
  
  
• To learn more about Princetonians in the arts, see quotation #24, 29, and 37, and Café Vivian picture #55, 67, 88, and 94.
  
  
• To learn more about notable Princeton undergraduate alumni, see icon #4, 5, and 10, quotation #3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 33, 37, and 41, and Café Vivian picture #1, 5, 7, 15, 17, 39, 41, 55, 57, 59, 74, 76, 84, 88, 99, 101, 102, 107, 110, and 123.

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