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Title: Scrap-book compiled by Tommy Fitzsimmons, a Denver-based movie usher and theatre manager Author: Fitzsimmons, Tommy Place: Publisher: Date: 1934-1942 Description: 22ff. With different items mounted or tipped in; 35 different printed promotional pieces—bookmarks, invitations, cards—plus 14 typed letters, three ribbons, eight large photographs, and 14 newspaper clippings. (Folio), spiral-bound “Scrap-book” in original boards. Laid in 24pp souvenir booklet for Warner Bros. Variety film “Show of Shows. Memorabilia collected by a young man who worked in the movie-theatre side of the trade. Fitzsimmons worked for a local chain of movie theaters owned by Harry Huffman—mostly at Huffman’s Bluebird and Paramount Theaters. The Scrap-book includes invitations to showings of Diamond Jim (1935) and These Three (1936); pseudo-legal proclamation for Young Mr. Lincoln (1939); souvenir napkin for Captain Fury (1939); door-hanging promo for Ritz Brothers’ Gorilla (1939); program for Tobacco Road and Metropolitan; advertising campaign for Hound of the Baskervilles and Women in the Wind (1939); photo of the Bluebird Theatre all decked out for Wallace Berry’s Viva Villa (1934); skull-shaped mask for “Francisco’s Midnight Spook Frolic; two photos of the Paramount marqué; photo presumably of Tommy in a theatre lobby; signed publicity photo of minor star Roger Pryor; and some letters of recommendation Lot Amendments Condition: Boards a bit worn; some leaves detached and with frayed edges, tears and scattered stains, some darkening; very good. Item number: 261165