Fantastic lot of thirty six vintage show programs, all but two from Shrine Auditorium, Des Moines, Iowa productions, 6 x 9, each signed in ink or fountain pen by the respective performer featured. Signers include: Grace Panvini, Marie Nash, and Frank Cork from An Evening with Sigmund Romberg and his Concert Orchestra; Gertrude Lawrence from Skylark; Raymond Massey from Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Nelson Eddy and Theodore Paxson; Walter Hampden from Ethan Frome; Eva le Gallienne from The Master Builder; Fortune Gallo from San Carlo Opera Company; Ruth Chatterton from Pygmalion; Ethel Barrymore, Richard Waring, Lewis Russell, and Ester Mitchell from The Corn is Green; Clifton Webb from The Man Who Came to Dinner; Cornelia Otis Skinner from Edna His Wife; Edward Everett Horton from Springtime for Henry; William Gaxton, Victor Moore, and Sophie Tucker from Leave it to Me; Bill Robinson from Hot Mikado; Jeanette MacDonald and Giuseppe Bamboschek from Song Recital; Paul Muni and Helen Beverly from Key Largo; Marion Anderson and Franz Rupp from Great American Singer; Erich von Stroheim from Arsenic and Old Lace (2); and many more. In overall fine condition, with scattered toning and the occasional adhesive residue. R&R COA.
