Topsy and Eva
Contributors: Duncan, Vivian, 1902-1986; Duncan, Rosetta, 1900-1959; Cushing, Catherine Chisholm; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Duncan Sisters; Selwyn Theatre (Organization : Chicago, Ill.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress); Miss America Pageant
Published: 1924
Language: eng
Other titles: Topsy & Eva.
Description: Selwyn Theatre, Selwyn Theatre Corporation of Illinois, owners, the Selwyns, managers, Walter S. Duggan, business manager. Tom Wilkes presents the Duncan Sisters in Catherine Chisholm Cushing's "Topsy and Eva" a musical comedy (suggested by "Uncle Tom's Cabin) music and lyrics by the Duncan Sisters, staged under the direction of Oscar Eagle, musical numbers staged by Jack Holland, settings designed by Dickson Morgan. Musical numbers: director Jerome Stewart.
Notes: Selwyn Theatre [Chicago, Illinois]. Thirty-first week, beginning Sunday evening, July 27, 1924, matinees Thursday and Saturday.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Aimee Torriani, Glory Minehart, Basil Ruysdael, Rex Cherryman, Helen Case, Renee Lowrie, Lea Swan, Edith Maybaun, Antoinette Boots, Wilbur Cushman, Harriet Hoctor, Frank K. Wallace, Davis Goodman, Florence Martin, Harriet Bennett, Ashley Cooper, Myrtle Ferguson, Rosetta Duncan, Vivian Duncan, Harriet Hoctor, Ross Himes. Plantation Quartette: Harold Duncan, Harry Furney, Roy Collins and Floyd Carder. Theresa Ash, Alderine Grafke, Dixie Harkiness, Renee Lowrie, Lea Swan, ANtoinette Boots, Kathryn Graves, Jessie Pollard, Edith Maybaun, Natasha Verova, Lorraine Ray, Bessie Pattison, Hazel Cushman, Billie Bart, Hettie Ward, Teresa McSpirit, Rosie Swettenham, Violet Little, Rosa Thompson, Ethel Swettenham, Minnie Shaw, Elsie Thomson and Kitty Dolan.

Color illustrated covers with color illustrated advertisement for Djer-Kis cosmetics on inside front cover, Libby's condiments on inside back cover, Murad cigarettes on back cover. Advertisement for Kelly Springfield tires on additional plate in program.

LC copy accompanied by playbill advertisement for extra matinee for the Duncan Sisters in "Topsy & Eva" on Tuesday, August 12th. Also accompanied by playbill advertisement for bathing suit competition at the Trianon Ballroom for Miss Chicago to represent the city of Chicago in the National Beauty Tournament and bathing beauty pageant "Miss America" at Atlantic City, Sept. 2-6.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).