The Madison Square Theatre Company : Hazel Kirke

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  Madison Square Theatre Co. : the professor

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  Image of a central image of a full-length portrait of a man wearing glasses and holding one hand out towards the viewer and a hat in the other; surrounded by six vignettes of scenes consisting of a man standing on a chair about to hang himself with a noose; a man hitting another in a fist fight; a man falling out of a window; two women fighting each other; women attempting to restrain a violent man; and a man and a woman sitting on a bench and concealed by an umbrella who are presumably embracing; the poster advertises the comedy "The Professor" written by William Gillette.

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  Madison Square Theatre Company. : The professor

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  Image of a full-length portrait of the character "The Professor" wearing a suit and a monocle and standing with one hand held out and holding his hat in the other; the poster advertises the comedy "The Professor" written by William H. Gillette.

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  An idyl of the Arkansaw hills : human hearts

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  Image of five head-and-shoulder portraits, in heart frames surrounded by flowers, for characters in the play the "Human Hearts" depicting a young man in a straw hat, captioned "Tom Logan with a human heart," at center; a hobo with a red-painted nose, captioned "Jem. Mason with an honest heart," at upper right; a girl, captioned, "Grace with an angel's heart," at lower right; a woman, captioned "Jeanette with a black heart," at lower left; and a boy wearing a cap, captioned "Limpy with a heart in the right place," at upper left; the poster advertises the melodrama the "Human Hearts" written by Hal Reid and later directed by William E. Nankeville.

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  Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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  Image of a central image of an older African American man in a torn shirt and suspenders kneeling before Abraham Lincoln who holds a handwritten copy of the “Emancipation Proclamation” with broken shackles at his feet, captioned “Abolition of Slavery”; with an upper-left image of Eliza, a young mother, and a young girl coming to Uncle Tom and his wife, who holds a candle, in their pajamas before their cabin at night, captioned “Eliza seeking protection of Uncle Tom”; a lower-left image of Eva, a young blond girl lying in a small bed with white and African American mourners crowding around the bed and a night stand with a cup, small bottle, and box on it, captioned “Death of Eva”;an upper-right image of an African American man and woman dancing in the front yard of a cabin in a wooded area with African American onlookers and a man playing a banjo, captioned “Pastimes in the sunny South”; a lower-right image of Topsy, a young African American girl wearing a potato sack dress that read “18 [space] CH,” throwing a bonnet while sitting on a messy floor next to a can while a white woman in formal dress looks on aghast; the poster presumably advertises an Uncle Tom’s Cabin show.

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  Gus Williams as John Mishler : "One of the Finest." Under the management of John Rickaby

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  Image of a central image of American actor Gus Williams dressed in character as a police officer swinging a night stick with surrounding vignettes of crime scenes including a woman being held at gunpoint on a porch next to the East River in New York City where a man prepares to dive into the water to save a drowning man, with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background, captioned "The East River Tragedy," at upper right; Officer Mishler in his pajamas pointing a gun at a man in a hall outside of bedrooms, captioned "'Why do you interfere between man and wife?' 'On the personal responsibility of a man'- John Mishler," at bottom center; two women looking at two men on a sidewalk, captioned "The Masher," at center left; and a man holding a baby before a woman captioned "'Are you sure this is the little girl?,'" at upper left; the poster advertises the play "One of the Finest" written by Joseph Bradford.

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  Royce and Lansing Musical Comedy Co. : in a basket of chips

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  Image of five character vignettes consisting of two male and two female musicians, in Spanish costumes, standing in a row playing mandolins; head-and-shoulder portraits of a whiteface clown and a hobo captioned "The Cherubs," a portrait of a man with a cane and long mustache and a woman wearing a bonnet captioned "Symantha and Algernon"; an old man in an historical costume patting a boy with an ax on the head captioned "The Little Hatchet"; and a pirate with a knife moving towards a girl in a nightgown with her arms raised captioned "The Amateur Villain and Maiden"; with vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of Ray L. Royce, at upper right, and Web Lansing, at lower left, and a decorative border; the poster advertises the musical-comedy show "Basket of Chips" performed by Royce and Lansing's company.

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