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Poster for "Blue Jeans"



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Title: Poster for "Blue Jeans"
Description: Color lithograph poster. At top, the main banner reads "Blue Jeans" with insert at left "Will Never Wear Out" and another at right "By Joseph Arthur/The Author of/"The Still Alarm." The image shows one man about to cut another man in half with a buzz-saw in a lumber mill while a woman breaks down a door with a chair to begin her rescue.
Image ID: 89926
Creation
Date: 		1890 
Creator
Name: 		Enquirer Job Printing Company
Collection
Name: 		WCFTR Posters
Genre: Posters
Additional
Information: 		Joseph Arthur's most successful melodrama, which introduced the spectacle of hero or heroine being dragged toward a buzzsaw, was a hit in its premiere (176 performances) and continued to be revived for many years after (for instance in 1892 for several month at its original home of the 14th St. Theatre, and in 1908 at the Shakespeare Theatre, London). The original production starred Robert Hilliard and Judith Berolde. In 1917 it became a silent film with Viola Dana in 1917.
Subjects: Theaters
Sawmills
Posters
 

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Please Credit: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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