[Bruce Rogers] The Footlight Club; One Hundredth Performance

The Footlight Club; One Hundredth Performance. A Scrap of Paper. Eliot Hall, Jamaica Plain: [The Riverside Press], 1906. [Designed by Bruce Rogers.] Bound in dark burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. Gilt decorated endpapers. The title page decoration was later re-used by Rogers for the Centenary of William Makepeace Thackeray meeting at the Club of Odd Volumes in 1911. Measures approx. 5.25" x 8.5". Some light edgewear and bumping to corners. Haas 72.

“The Footlight Club is the oldest continuously-running community theatre group in the United States of America, having performed every year since 1877. It is a non-profit organization, incorporated as such in 1927. Based in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, the club currently owns and resides in historic Eliot Hall, which its members purchased in 1889 to provide a home for performances and save the building from demolition” (Wikipedia).