 In 1912, Lee and Jacob J. Shubert began an annual series of twelve elaborate Broadway revues at the Winter Garden Theatre, using the name "The Passing Show of 19XX", designed to compete with the popular Ziegfeld Follies.They featured libretti by Atteridge and music usually by Romberg, George Gershwin or Herman Finck.Willie and Eugene Howard starred in many editions of the series and in the many editions of the George White's Scandals.