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Zozo the magic queen

Description: Image of a collage of images centered on a young man in an aristocratic historical costume with tights holding up a head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman, and surrounded by a villain holding a knife, young scantily clad women in classical dress holding the strings for puppet caricatures of five men including a female impersonator, an older man, a man holding an American flag, and an Irish man; with a large bat, full moon, gothic sculptures, and waves hitting a rocky shore; the poster advertises the dramatic spectacle "Zozo, the Magic Queen."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1887
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000995
Creator: Last, Jay T

The comedy drama the new Fogg’s ferry by Chas E. Callahan

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Image of a man and two women on the banks of a lake shore with a young women in a dress and straw hat lying on the ground with her hand in the air, while a young man tries to stop her mother from hitting her with a stick; the poster advertises the comedic melodrama "New Fogg's Ferry" written by Charles Callahan, presumably as an updated version of his 1882 play "Fogg's Ferry."

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Madison Square Theatre Co. : the professor

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"Triumphant American tour" George the supreme master of magic : 18 people carload of scenic effects

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Image of American magician Grover George standing at left center while holding a magician's wand and doing a magic trick with playing cards flying from his hand before young women wearing robs and bows in their hair with images of different world locales including Arab men on camels in Egypt by the Great Pyramids and an Asian locale with a man wearing a traditional Chinese costume, lanterns, a pagoda, and a woman holding a serving tray, with a witch flying on a broomstick and three red devils with horns in the left foreground looking at a large book while holding a snake and playing cards.

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The mother-in-law's discovery

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Image of a scene in a house with a mother-in-law attacking an Irish man with a feather duster and holding a letter addressed "Alderman McSweeney New York" with a couple, a man drinking from a bottle of wine, and a woman entering through a door in the background and a sign reading "Keep Nothing From Mother" on the wall; the poster presumably advertises the farce comedy "The Irish Alderman," written by Robert Neilson Stephens, in which a female impersonator played the role of Mrs. Bridget Casey, the mother-in-law of Alderman Dennis McSweeney.

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Union Square Theatre success : a prisoner for life

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Image of a young man and an old man in historical costumes trying to escape a jail cell, with the young man holding open a bag and the older man breaking the blocks of the cell wall with a metal rod; the poster advertises the melodrama "A Prisoner for Life" adapted from a French play by Louis Nathal.

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Hoyt’s a midnight bell: laughter every minute

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Image of a classroom scene with a young woman holding a young man by his ear in the center of a schoolroom before an older man, with a female teacher sitting at a desk, other students, and a seated couple looking on; the poster advertises the comic melodrama "A Midnight Bell" by Charles H. Hoyt.

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