A World of Pleasure is a revue in two acts with book and lyrics by Harold Atteridge and music by Sigmund Romberg. Additional music was by John L. Golden and J. Leubrie Hill and additional lyrics by Jack Wilson. It was produced at the Winter Garden Theatre on 14 October 1915 and ran until 22 January the following year, a total of 116 performances.

Dramatis Personæ

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ACT I

• No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "An afternoon down at the club ... With all the swells your shoulders rub..."
• No. 2 - Fifth Avenue Chorus - "When there is nothing you care to do, just take a walk down Fifth Avenue..."
• No. 3 - Ensemble and Song - Blinker and Chorus - "What job is there for me here in this Agency? ..."
• No. 4 - Song - Sylvia and Ensemble - "Woman isn't a beginner when she plays the misty game of love..."
• No. 5 - "Miss Innovation" - "You better wait, stop and look, all the dancers we know are now passés..."
• No. 6 - Song - Tony and Chorus - "I always like the girls, with each pretty face - I start to chase, I just love to embrace..."
• No. 7 - Song - Sam and Chorus - "Say!  I'd like to have you see our lttle city;  Say!  Let's see a cabaret and hear a ditty..."
• No. 8 - Polo Rag - Mosconi Dance
• No. 9 - Song - Tony - "You are the girl to do wonders with me;  You soon will see how good I'll be..."
• No. 10 - Song - Sylvia and Chorus - "Catty Corner is the place where the ladies all go for tea..."
• No. 11 - Syncopation Song - Tony and Chorus - "It's a fad, yes, a fad, in most ev'ry café; folks are glad, music-mad..."
• No. 12 - Song - Marjorie and Ensemble - "Here's the place for buying all your toys; get your trinkets for the girls and boys..."
• No. 13 - Futuristic Dance
• No. 14 - Toyland No. 1 - (brief snatches of music interspersed with sections of dialog)
• No. 15 - Song - Rosebud - "Miss Rosey Posey was one time all the rage;  posey little Rosey was the hit of the stage..."
• No. 16 - Toyland No. 2 - "I would go home to a girl like you..."   (a reprise of No. 9)
• No. 17 - Danse Excentrique
• No. 18 - Song - Annette Gates - "O you sons of ev'ry land, bound to what rulers demand, here's a home awaiting you..."

ACT II

• No. 19a - Ragtime Pipe of Pan Ballet Music
• No. 19b - Song - Blinker - "Pan was quite a man, back in the ages, and some boy in hist'ry's pages..."
• No. 20 - Duet - Sylvia, Blinker and Ensemble - "I saw a painting in a fan, a portrait that I chanced to scan..."
• No. 21 - Song - Dorothy Gates - "Why look around for love, dearie, just wait a bit and hear me - I think I'm it..."
• No. 22 - Fascination Duet - Sylvia and Blinker - "I know each little art, I know the manly heart, just what to do and say..."
• No. 23 - Battle-Song - Tom Collins - "God save the King! is the battle-song that Englishmen all cry..."
• No. 24 - Ragtime Carnival - Yvette and Ensemble - "Gay carnival now is here, and the town is quite mad..."
• No. 25 - Final Chorus - The Jigaree - "They have a sway up Harlem way ..."

Items 11 and 15 were composed by J. Leubrie Hill.

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