George Frederick Norton is connected in the minds of music lovers with just one work, the musical comedy Chu Chin Chow, produced at His Majesty's Theatre on 3rd August 1916 and which ran for five years and a total of 2238 performances, then a record. This remarkable show was described as a combination of musical comedy and pantomime. The Era said Norton's music had "a touch of the East but for the most part it was on a level with the tender melody of musical comedy" and "hardly inspired". Be that as it may, many of the songs became hits and The Cobbler's Song in particular entered the repertoire of ballad singers for at least three or four decades. Norton himself took the role of Ali Baba in some performances. Its American production in New York notched up 208 performances in 1917-1918, A revival in England in 1940 yielded a further 238 performances and there was a Chu Chin Chow "on ice" in 1953. The show was filmed in 1923 and, with George Robey, Malcolm McEachern ("Mr Jetsam"), Francis L Sullivan and Anna May Wong, again in 1934.If you want to know more, try http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~snc/magfut2.htm