1928 SHOWBOAT ZIEGFELD THEATER PROGRAM NELL BRINKLEY NR
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ITEM: You are bidding on an original Florence Ziegfeld program for SHOWBOAT This program is for the week of October 15, 1928. This is a wonderful and exceptionally rare original piece of theater memorabilia from the scandalous, historic & theatrically renowned Ziegfeld Follies. Florence Ziegfeld productions were known for their unparalleled degree of multiculturalism, staging productions with white and black performers at work together, and for employing the highest talents of modernism, including Joseph Urban, Alfred Cheney Johnston, Henri Bendel, Raphael Kirchner and of course Alberto Vargas. The Ziegfeld productions, with their veneration of female sexuality and promotion of new forms of pop culture, helped turn the early 20th century into an era of profound cultural change. Employing the talents of such artist's as NEll Brinkley, whose empowered and enlivened flappers were a truly new representation of women, this program shows the great insight of the company. Brinkley also contributes a synopsis of the production, as well as pages of photographs of the beauties who graced it, and wonderful seductive art deco advertising. Program measures 9" x 12" 28 pages. 100% Guaranteed Authentic and Vintage. CONDITION: This original vintage program is in fine condition. It is complete with no cuts, t is some minor wear and soiling and the
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