Theatrical manager's bunco-game,works,ticket scalping,corruption,NY,Ehrhart,1900
Title: The theatrical manager's bunco-game, and how he works it / Ehrhart.
Creator(s): Ehrhart, S. D. (Samuel D.), ca. 1862-1937, artist
Date Created/Published: N.Y. : J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., 1900 December 19.
Summary: Illustration shows at center a theater manager, his hands and pockets stuffed with money; around him are four scenes showing how he manages a scam to extort higher prices for the theater tickets, using scalpers (called 'Speculators') and by bribing the police. A fifth scene shows how the public can change this practice, by not attending the theater productions.
Notes:
Title from item.
Caption: The manager the real culprit.
Illus. in: Puck, v. 48, no. 1241 (1900 December 19), centerfold.
Copyright 1900 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
Subjects:
Ticket scalping--New York (State)--New York--1900.
Corruption--New York (State)--New York--1900.
Theatrical producers & directors--New York (State)--New York--1900.
Theater audiences--New York (State)--New York--1900.
Avarice--1900.
Cartoons (Commentary)--1900.
Chromolithographs--Color--1900.
Periodical illustrations--1900.
Bookmark /2010651357/
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