(BROADSIDES - POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT) [Carl Brehm Company]

Wait! We are Coming! The Old Reliable and Only New Version of Ten Nights in a Bar Room! [i.e.] Approaching Day by Day, Carl Brehm’s Spectacular Ten Nights in a Bar Room.

Erie, [Pennsylvania]: Erie Show Print, [n.d., 1890’s?]. Broadsheet, 21 x 7 inches, on pale peach paper. Illustrated on both sides with dramatic cuts from the play. Fine condition.
The broadside has crude and entertaining cuts as one would expect to find: men gambling and playing cards while a daughter tries to drag her gambling-addict father away; a barroom fight involving bottles and chairs raised high in the air and in the hands of angry drunken men. The play references the “late Henry Ward Beecher” (Beecher died in 1887). The promoters promised a beautiful tableau, colored fires and novelty mechanical effects. The scenery was painted the purportedly well-known Scenic Artist, Ray Stafford of Chicago. The Carl Brehm Company may have been based in Ohio.
Not in OCLC.
$350





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