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Description Poster for the Mercury Theatre from Run-Through, A Memoir by John Houseman (1972), page 342: So now during February and March [1938], the Mercury had one hundred and twenty-four actors performing in four shows in three theatres. Our three New York shows were playing within two blocks of each other on West Forty-first Street. We renamed it Mercury Street, and without permission from the city, put up temporary signs to that effect on the corners of Sixth and Seventh Avenues and Broadway. And we engaged a young specialist in industrial graphics to design an elegant poster, headed Welcome to Mercury Street, in which each of our productions was clearly symbolized by small, stylized figures: fascist-military; renaissance-comic; a cradle in a treetop in a rising wind.
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Philip Ragan, designer, for the Mercury Theatre

  • Philip Ragan became a film producer, animator and information designer based in Philadelphia.
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Poster for the Mercury Theatre's three spring 1938 productions—''Caesar'', ''The Shoemaker's Holiday'' and ''The Cradle Will Rock''—running simultaneously in two Broadway theaters

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