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During an intermission or after a “Comic Opera at Mrs. Van Varick-Shadd’s,” a large crowd of men and women wearing formal evening clothes look with chagrin at three women wearing short red dresses, who have secured the attentions of several young men. A painted scene in the background shows nude women cavorting at the seaside.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-04-26
Giulio Gatti-Casazza and Oscar Hammerstein throw puppets labeled “Tenor, Second Tenor, Contralto, Baritone, Basso, Mezzo Soprano, [and] High Soprano” at each other.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-11-11
Giulio Gatti-Casazza, with the trained animals for various operas, and a woman sit in the “celebrated ‘Horseshoe'” section of the opera house. The surrounding vignettes show Alfred Hertz as a young man and as the current conductor, Enrico Caruso, “Italy’s Standing Army,” which is a group of men dressed for the theater, possibly critics, actors with props, and a prima donna too large to “fit the chairs of the period.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1915-01-09
Theodore Roosevelt appears as “Mikado Roosevelt” with a large cast of characters standing behind him: “Pish Tush Root,” “Landis,” “Pooh Bah Taft,” “Burroughs,” “Heney,” “Cortelyou,” “Steffens,” “La Follette,” “Folk,” “Garfield,” “Riis,” “Loeb,” and “Koko Bonaparte,” who is holding a large sword labeled “Department of Justice.” John D. Rockefeller labeled “Flim-Flam Business,” and Edward Henry Harriman labeled “Flim Flam Finance,” are kneeling on the stage awaiting execution. Caption: “My object all sublime / I shall achieve in time — / To let the punishment fit the crime — / The punishment fit the crime. — / And make each prisoner pent / Unwillingly represent / A source of infinite merriment, / Of infinite merriment.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-01-08