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Poster for "The Tourists"



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Title: Poster for "The Tourists"
Description: Color Lithograph. In a caption box at top is the banner "Sam. S. & Lee Schubert (inc) Offer the Merry Musical Comedy" followed in larger block letters by "The Tourists." Below that in smaller type is the caption "North American Amusement Company, Proprietors. Direct From One Whole Year in New York." A man in tattered clothing and a tam pushes a young peasant woman in a wheelbarrow. The bottom caption reads "Oh! You'll Dump Me!"
Image ID: 89269
Creation
Date: 		1906 
Creator
Name: 		Strobridge Lithographic Company
Collection
Name: 		WCFTR Posters
Genre: Posters
Additional
Information: 		The play had a short run at the Majestic in New York City from late August to early December. With its exotic setting ("Hindustan") and a few notable songs ("Nice to Have a Sweetheart"), the play shows Burnside's familiarity as a director of many Gilbert and Sullivan shows for the Schuberts.
Subjects: Theaters
Musical revue
Posters
 

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Please Credit: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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