Collection of ten original route cards for five itinerant theatre productions

N.p. N.p., 1926-1929. Collection of ten vintage route cards advertising the showing schedules of five different traveling theatre shows produced by Cincinnati producer George E. Wintz between 1926 and 1929.

Among the shows represented in this collection are "Ziegfeld Follies," Irving Berlin's "Music Box Revue," "The Vagabond King," "Rio Rita," and "George White's Scandals." The shows apparently toured primarily in the mid-Atlantic and southern United States. Four cards have postmarks on the verso, and are addressed to a Charlie North (likely a crew or cast member for Wintz's run of "George White's Scandals") from Harry Cook, the props master of Wintz's shows.

Itinerant, or traveling, theatre shows gained popularity during the early and mid-1920s, with commercial genres such as vaudeville and musical revues finding particular success during Prohibition, when jazz cabarets, speakeasies, and nightclubs would stage elaborate shows in order to hide the fact that audiences were actually flocking in to obtain alcohol.

Cards range from 3.25 x 5.5 inches to 3 x 5 inches. Generally about Near Fine.

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