Jun 12, 2008 - Sale 2149

Sale 2149 - Lot 212

Price Realized: $ 7,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
AL HIRSCHFELD
Two Weeks With Pay.

Pen and ink on illustration board. 480x685 mm; 19x27 inches. Signed and inscribed "White Plains" in ink, center left recto.

Gene Kelly's first attempt as a Broadway choreographer, the show lasted only 2 weeks in summer stock tryout. The drawing shows Kelly, Bill Johnson, Marie Nash, Hiram Sherman, Pat Harrington and the team of Mata & Hari (Ruth Mata and Eugene Haru).

Published in the New York Times, June 23, 1940.