Cort Theatre Chicago: the Poor Nut

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CORT
THEATRE CHICAGO

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CORT THEATRE

Burlington Route


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The AVENUE of PILLARS
The beautiful colonnade which fronts the Chicago Union Station has come to be regarded an architectural triumph.

ALL BURLINGTON TRAINS USE THIS MAGNIFICENT NEW STATION

This is the route preferred by discriminating travelers


Omaha
Lincoln
Denver
St. Paul
Minneapolis
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The Pacific Northwest



RESERVATIONS
J. R. VAN DYKE, General Agent, Passenger Department

179 West Jackson Street   CHICAGO   Phone WABash 4600

The Burlington Route





CORT THEATRE
DEARBORN STREET, NEAR RANDOLPH
CHICAGO
CORT THEATRE COMPANY, OWNERS

H. H. FRAZEE, PRES.   U. J. HERRMAN, SEC'Y AND TREAS.



INFORMATION
A LOUNGING ROOM for Ladies and Gentlemen down stairs at south end of Foyer.

LADIES' PARLORS—Left of Lounging Room and left of Parlor on Mezzanine Floor.

MEN'S CLUB ROOM—Right of Lounging Room downstairs.  Retiring Room adjoining, also on right of Parlor on Mezzanine Floor.

CHECK ROOMS—One on left of Lounging Room down stairs, another on right of Parlor on Mezzanine Floor.  No charge is made for this service.  The management will not be responsible for wraps or articles lost unless checked.

TELEPHONES—In Lounging Room, also in Parlor on Mezzanine Floor.

TAXICABS—Can be called by notifying an usher.

EMERGENCY CALLS—Physicians or others anticipating calls may leave their names and seat numbers at the box office, where it will receive careful attention.

SEATS FOR FUTURE PERFORMANCES may be secured at the box office during an intermission or after the performance.  Box office open from 8:30 A.M. until after the performance.

LOST ARTICLES—Persons finding articles in the theatre will please leave them at the box office or with an usher.

CHILDREN will require a ticket.  A city Ordinance makes this rule imperative.

LADIES WILL KINDLY REMOVE THEIR HATS during the performance, thereby complying with an ordinance passed by the City Council.  Those failing to observe this rule will be requested to do so by an usher.

PATRONS WILL PLEASE REPORT to the management in person or by letter any inattention or lack of courtesy on the part any attache.


MAKE YOURSELF WELCOME—
FEEL AT HOME—
THE PLAY IS FOR YOU—
THE THEATRE IS YOURS.



WHO'S WHO IN THE POOR NUT
ELLIOTT NUGENT, featured in The Poor Nut, written by himself and father, J. C. Nugent, played in Chicago on two other occasions, once as Tom Sterret in Dulcy and again as Kempy in the play of same name, which he and his father also wrote.

PERCY HELTON appeared in other plays before his Poor Nut engagement, namely, The Return of Peter Grimm, The Five Million, Fifty Miles from Boston, Julie Bon Bon, The Wife Tamers, and more recently as Jerry in Up the Ladder and Raymond in Greatness with Jobyna Howland.

BEACH COOKE'S other activities in Chicago were The Purple Mask, Toto, and In Love With Love.

ERIC KALKHURST was co-featured at the Studebaker in Capsized and was also in The Haunted House.

ROBERT SCOTT was singing lead during the Chicago engagement in The Greenwich Village Follies, and also played the Palace and State-Lake.





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LES PARFUMS
COTY
ECHOING IN INCOMPARABLE FRAGRANCE THE INDIVIDUAL CHARM OF LOVELY WOMEN


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PARIS   CHYPRE   EMERAUDE   L'ORIGAN




CHICAGO'S   SMARTEST   NEW   APARTMENT   HOTEL
The
SENECA
Favored by people of importance

THE designers of the Seneca quite frankly planned a town residence for those who are accustomed to the best.  Here, for instance, will live the representative of a foreign government … a member of a great New York financial firm … to mention only two of a number of persons of more than ordinary business and social prominence.  The location is east of Michigan on Chestnut Street … the Drake Hotel is immediately north.  The Loop itself is a matter of a tenminute walk.  All apartments are furnished.  Keep house or not, as you wish.  Real kitchens with Frigidaire ice-units, full-size electric ranges … Grill and restaurant in building (no extra charge for room service) make it unnecessary.  Maid service if desired; commissary on premises; public garages within a block.  Altogether an impelling invitation to efficient and delightful living!

Rentals, two to eight rooms, with or without kitchen, $140 to $800.  The Seneca will be ready for occupancy October 1st.



CHESTNUT AND SENECA STREETS
IN EXCLUSIVE STREETERVILLE
Representatives of McMenemy & Martin, exclusive agents, are on the premises from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. daily to show and explain this interesting building.  Your inspection invited.  Illustrated brochure mailed free on request.  Or telephone Superior 1131.

This is a Collins, Murphy & Jackson, Inc., Building




CORT THEATRE
CHICAGO
DEARBORN STREET, NEAR RANDOLPH
REPLETE IN EVERY DETAIL, WITH ALL LATEST IMPROVEMENTS AND MOST MODERN TYPE OF STEEL AND CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF



FIRE NOTICE
Look around now, choose the nearest exit to your seat.  In case of fire, WALK (do not run) to that exit.  Do not try to beat your neighbor to the street.



Beginning Sunday Evening August 29, 1926
Matinees Wednesday and Saturday

PATTERSON McNUTT
Presents
THE POOR NUT
By J. C. NUGENT and ELLIOTT NUGENT
(Authors of Kempy)
with
ELLIOTT NUGENT
Staged by Howard Lindsay

PROGRAM CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE FOLLOWING
PLAN OF EXITS ON PAGE TWELVE




Mary File in Play program
I. MILLER Introduces Slippers of
blue!

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Kidskin!
Grocodile!
Suede!

Deep, dark, richly-toned blue slippers!  Enthusiastically adopted by smarter Paris—instantly accepted by smarter Chicago!

I. MILLER
Beautiful Shoes

312 SO. MICHIGAN AVE. (Straus Building)   STATE STREET at MONROE
SHOPS AND AGENCIES IN PRINCIPAL CITIES



Paul H. Fieberg Company
DISTINCTIVE PRINTING
CHICAGO
NEW PHONES
SUPerior
1648 – 1649 – 1650

EXCHANGE ALL DEPARTMENTS DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE
213 WEST AUSTIN AVENUE

ADVERTISING
Counsel-Production

PHF

LOOSE-LEAF
Systems-Devices




CHARACTERS
(In Order of Their First Appearance)



COLONEL SMALL, the book store man
ROBERT SCOTT


MARGERIE BLAKE, an Ohio co-ed
NORMA LEE


JOHN MILLER, Our Hero
ELLIOTT NUGENT


JULIA WINTERS, Miss Wisconsin
BETTY GARDE


SPIKE HOYT, Wisconsin Track Captain
LARRY FLETCHER


HUB SMITH, a Psi Sigma Man
BEACH COOKE


MAGPIE WELCH, Cheer Leader, Ohio State.
PERCY HELTON


COACH JACKSON, of Ohio State track team
CORNELIUS RODDY


WALLIE PIERCE, Captain of Ohio State Track Team
ERIC KALKHURST


PROFESSOR DEMING, of the Botany Dept.
FRAZER COULTER


DOC SPURNEY, the Ohio Trainer
THOMAS SHEARER


A FRESHMAN
HARRY GRESHAM





THIS THEATRE IS NOW EQUIPPED WITH A
Hope-Jones Unit Orchestra
MANUFACTURED BY THE
Rudolph Wurlitzer Mfg. Company
CHICAGO   NEW YORK   CINCINNATI

This Theatre can be rented with the use of this instrument for concerts Recitals, Amateur Theatricals, etc.
For terms apply to U. J. Herrman, Manager




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To Insure Honest Elections

VOTE FOR
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Wedding Gifts in Jewelry and Silver
The well chosen gifts of discriminating friends are among the great joys of the bride and groom on their day of days.

Here, among our great selections of delightful wedding gifts, may be found presents, little and big, that are ideally suited to be life-long remembrances.

WHEN YOU VISIT OUR STORE
courteous, experienced salespeople will gladly aid you in your choice of appropriate wedding gifts, with the purpose of pleasing you in both price and quality.

Charles E GRAVES & Company
Madison Street at Wabash Avenue
CHICAGO
Established 1857




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DINNER — SUPPER DANCING
POMPEIAN ROOM
New and distinctive decorative features

Cool, refreshing washed and refrigerated air makes dining and dancing a summer pleasure.

SUNDAY CONCERTS 6 till 9 Both Louis XVI and Pompeian Dining Rooms.

CONGRESS HOTEL and ANNEX



The Parolan in HYDE PARK
An Exclusive Apartment Hotel

Ideally located in Jackson Park District, with the best transportation in the city (I. C. Express, Bus, Surface).

Complete apartment hotel service at moderate rentals.

One to five room apartments with kitchenettes.

CAFE IN CONNECTION

Private garages on grounds
5480 CORNELL AVENUE
Fairfax 7400






OFFICIAL STARTER
ROBERT SCOTT


BETTY, a Co-ed
MARJORIE DODD


REGGIE
BETTY CLIFFORD



Ohio State Students, Wisconsin Students,

Runners
Wisconsin—Irwin Nichols, Lloyd Rosselot,
Ohio State—Ralph Hackett, L. Lieberman.




ACT I—The University Book Store.
(Intermission 12 minutes.)

ACT II—

Scene 1—The Trainer's Tent, Athletic Field. (Next Day.)
Scene 2—Official Boxes, corner of the Stadium.

(Intermission 12 minutes)

ACT III—Living Room Psi Sigma House. (That Night.)



The Aerzonator air purifier and the SOAPERIOR Liquid Soap Dispensing System used here are furnished by the U. S. Sanitary Specialties Corporation, a Chicago industry.



LYON & HEALY Piano now used in this Theatre; manufactured and sold by Lyon & Healy, 237 South Wabash.



CANADA DRY GINGER ALE used in this production



The UNION Restaurant
68 W. RANDOLPH ST
Between Clark and Dearborn
Convenient to Theatre Parties


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One of Chicago's finest Restaurants, recently enlarged and modernized.  It serves the best of food at moderate prices.

Delicious Dishes, Steaks, Chops, Live Lobsters, also Light Lunches

Our Doors are always Open, Day & Night




SPAULDING & CO. Jewlers and Silversmiths
Worth While Gifts at Reasonable Prices

Famous GORHAM Patterns
in Solid Silver


The Cinderella Pattern


Teaspoons
The Gift Worth While
Any of the above patterns at $9.50 the 1/2 dozen

SPAULDING & CO.
Goldsmiths Silversmiths Jewelers

Michigan Avenue at Van Buren Street   CHICAGO
1636 Orrington Avenue, EVANSTON   23 Rue de la Paix, PARIS




Miss Lee's first act gown from Alexandre, Paris and third act gown from Mary Walls, New York. Sporting goods from A. G. Spalding & Bros.

Campus sport coats worn in grandstand by Harry Kitzinger & Co. Electrical equipment by Duwico Stage Lighting Co.

The musical instrument used on the stage is the new Orthophonic Victrola furnished through the courtesy of Lyon & Healy.  Cash Register furnished by National Cash Register Co.



FOR PATTERSON McNUTT, Inc.
Shesgreen & Vroom, Managers.


Business Manager
George Henshall


Assistant Bus. Manager
Allan C. Dalzell


Stage Manager
Robert Scott


Assistant Stage Manager
Irwin Nichols





During the Intermission at the matinees tea will be served in the lounge with the compliments of the Thos. J. Lipton Tea Co.

Monarch Teenie Weenie Peanut Butter used in Peanut Butter Sandwiches.



RIAL TO GARDEN
Formerly King Joy Lo Co.
57-59 W. RANDOLPH STREET
Snappy Music by Rialto Orchestra
FOR DANCING DURING LUNCH AND EVENING


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Lunch and Table D'Hote Dinner
ALA CARTE SERVICE AT ALL HOURS

CHICAGO'S FINEST CHINESE-AMERICAN RESTAURANT
PHONE STATE 3168 FOR RESERVATION   NO COVER CHARGE




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Oriental service and decoration.
Phone Wabash 5524


The Crowd Goes to HUNG FONG LO CO.

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Because it's the Great
Chinese and American Restaurant

Enjoy a good time, good eating and drinking
CHOP SUEY A SPECIALTY.   Open Day and Night.
After Theatre and Dinner Parties given special attention.  Also catering.
N. W. Cor. State and Van Buren Sts.






PLAN OF EXITS—CORT THEATRE



FIRE NOTICE
Look around now, choose the nearest exit to your seat. In case of fire, WALK (do not run) to that exit.  Do not try to beat your neighbor to the street.





Libby's
100 Foods

58 separate kitchens have been built in the world's garden spots to pack the foods bearing this name


Insist on LIBBY'S when you buy these foods

Fruits, Vegetables

Sliced Pineapple
Crushed Pineapple
Peaches, Pears
Apricots
Cherries, Royal Anne
Cherries, Maraschino
Fruits for Salad
Plums, Apples
Apple Butter
Jellies, Jams
Strawberries
Raspberries
Loganberries
Blackberries
Prunes, Figs
Asparagus
Spinach
Pork and Beans
Tomatoes
Sweet Potatoes
Sauer Kraut
Tomato Soup

Pickles, Condiments

Catchup
Chili Sauce
Mustard
Queen Olives (Spanish)
Stuffed Olives (Spanish)
Olive Oil (Spanish)
Ripe Olives (California)
Sweet Pickles
Sour Pickles
Sweet Mixed Pickles
Sweet Mustard Pickles
Dill Pickles
Sweet Relish
Sweet Cauliflower
Sweet Onions
Chow Chow

Milk

Evaporated Milk
Condensed Milk

Salmon
Red Alaska Salmon

Canned Meats

Cooked Corned Beef
Roast Beef
Vienna Sausage
Beef Steak and Onions
Hamburger Steak
Veal Loaf
Chili Con Carne
Corned Beef Hash
Lunch Tongue
Ox Tongue
Genuine Deviled Ham
Meat-wich Spread
Potted Meat
Boneless Chicken
Potted Chicken
Sliced Dried Beef
Sliced Bacon
Mince Meat
Plum Pudding
Mexican Tamales
Bouillon Cubes
Beef Extract



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