"On your toes tonight, everybody! The Bridgeport 'Post' the Norwalk 'Hour' and the Stanford 'Advocate' are all here!" : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266498
Accession number: 
MA 12636
Author: 
Hokinson, Helen E. (Helen Elna), 1893-1949.
Published: 
1949.
Credit: 
The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Gift of Janine Luke in honor of William M. Griswold and in memory of Melvin R. Seiden, 2011.
Description: 
1 drawing.
Notes: 

Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, Feb. 5, 1949.

Summary: 

Director of a community theater production peeks through the curtain and tells the fearful looking actors on stage that various reporters and critics from local Connecticut newspapers are in attendance.

Medium: 
Pen, brush and black ink with graphite on paper.
Dimensions: 
368 x 482 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: