Lyceum Theatre Playbill Ca. 1918 - Selmer Jackson - with Vintage Advertising

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LYCEUM THEATRE
Offered is an original playbill for the Lyceum Theatre, Manhatten, for the play, "Seven Chances," which Mr. Jackson was
playing in. The paybill is in good condition only, with toning and cover wear noted and some folding to bottom tips of the playbill.
Item measures about 6 x 9 inches, unpaginated, about 14 pages. With a number of vintage ads.
Undated but most likely from 1918, as
David Belasco’s play, “Seven Chances," is a 1916 play,  and an ad noting, "Next
week," George M. Cohan’s “Hit-the-Trail-Holiday," which is a 1917 play. Also we have the wording, “Keep the Hun on the
Run – Buy Thrift Stamps," which indicates WW I was still an active war. One other clue to the age is the ad, "The
Landaulet Type 57 Cadillac," which gives the probable date of this items as late 1917 or early1918.
The Lyceum Theatre is a Broadway Theatre located at 149 West 45
th
Street near Times Square between Seventh and Sixth
Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Opened in 1903, the Lyceum Theatre is one of the three oldest surviving
Broadway venues (along with the Hudson and New Amsterdam Theatres). It is the oldest continuously operating legitimate
theatre in Midtown, and the first Broadway theatre ever to be granted landmark status in 1974. It is one of the few theatres in
New York which continues to operate under its original name.
Selmer Adolf Jackson was an American stage, film and television actor. He appeared in nearly 400 films between
1921 and 1963. His name was sometimes spelled Selmar Jackson. Mr. Jackson was born in Mills, Iowa, on May 7,
1888 and died in Burbank, California on March 30, 1971 at age 85.
In the 1930s and 1940s Mr. Jackson was a highly active character actor often seen in films because of his well-
modulated voice. He was usually given roles involving authority or authoritative figures such as; judges, lawyers,
doctors, high-ranking government officials or military officers and the like.
This program was from the personal property of Mr. Selmar Jackson.
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