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Poster for "A Trip to Chinatown"



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Title: Poster for "A Trip to Chinatown"
Description: Color lithograph poster. At top “Hoyt’s "A Trip to Chinatown" with insert at center "From Hoyt's Madison Square Theatre New York" and another insert at right "Frank McKee/Manager." The image shows two images of a fancy restaurant, one showing a man dining with a woman and the other a man dining alone and looking at his watch. Bottom caption reads “. . . what he expected and what he got . . .”
Image ID: 89934
Creation
Date: 		1891 
Creator
Name: 		Strobridge Lithographic Company
Collection
Name: 		WCFTR Posters
Genre: Posters
Additional
Information: 		Charles H. Hoyt's greatest success, the play is also credited by Bordman as moving American farce-comedy toward the modern musical. It opened at Madison Square Theatre, ran for 635 performances, and featured the song "The Bowery." By 1896 it was playing the West End and it continued to be revived here and abroad for decades. The silent film version arrived in 1926, with screenplay by Beatrice Vann and starring Anna May Wong.
Subjects: Theaters
Musical revue
Posters
 

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Please Credit: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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