1923 PLAYBILL - GEORGE M. COHAN - LITTLE NELLIE KELLY ORIGINAL THEATER PROGRAM

Description

Little Nellie Kelly was a two-act musical comedy of the Jazz Age, written, produced and directed by George M. Cohan. After opening in Boston in July 1922, it had long runs on Broadway in 1922–1923, in the West End of London in 1923–1924, and on tours.
Little Nellie Kelly opened at the Tremont Theatre, Boston, on 31 July 1922 and arrived at the Liberty Theatre on Broadway on 13 November 1922, where it ran for nine months. Its total of 276 performances in New York was more than for any of George M. Cohan's other musicals.
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his is the original program from the Liberty Theater.
Nellie Kelly is the daughter of a New York City Irish-American police officer, Captain John Kelly. After taking a job in DeVere's Department Store, she is seen and admired by the young millionaire and man-about-town Jack Lloyd. However, she is already loved by Jerry Conroy, a laborer who like her is Irish. When she refuses Lloyd's request for a date, he invites all the store's employees to a party at a house on Fifth Avenue belonging to his aunt, the redoubtable Mrs. Chesterfield Langford, with a view to getting to know Nellie better, and Conroy attends the party uninvited. During the evening, a valuable string of pearls belonging to Mrs. Langford is stolen, and suspicion falls on Conroy, while Lloyd pursues Nellie. In the end Conroy's name is cleared and the course of true love leads Nellie to refuse Lloyd and fall into the arms of Conroy.
This 1923 theatre program is from New York City's Liberty Theatre on 42nd Street, Broadway for George M. Cohan's production of "Little Nellie Kelly." It bears the copyright of the New York Theatre Program Corporation at the bottom edge of the front cover.
Ads and articles include Djer-Kiss (French powders and toiletries), Arrow Shirts, The Corn Exchange Bank,  "What the Man Will Wear, "
What the Woman Will Wear," Stetson Hats, The Hotel Astor, , a listing of other plays/musicals appearing in the area like "Ziegfeld Follies,"  the theatre's layout, Kelly Tires, Murad cigarettes (on back cover) and many, many more.
Condition is good for it's age, as it's almost 100 years old! This program has 40 pages. It is in good condition, inside pages very clean,  with some wear. There is a stain on the front cover extending slightly to the back cover, slight tears at the corner and bottom. See scans.
Very Rare, I have not seen another one anywhere.