BLOSSOM TIME 1934 Richard Tauber, Jane Baxter TRADE ADVERT

Original British 17 inch x 22 inch Trade Advertisement for the 1934 Paul L. Stein Musical BLOSSOM TIME, based on the opera Das Dreimaderlhaus by Heinrich Berte and starring Richard Tauber, Jane Baxter, Willy Eichberger, Athene Seyler, Paul Graetz, Edward Chapman and Gibb McLaughlin.

When composer Franz Schubert finds himself the victim of an unrequited love affair, he decides to make the woman of his dreams happy by trying to arrange her marriage to the man she wants, who is in the bad books of the ruling authorities of 1820's Vienna.

Trade advertisements are colourful posters aimed at cinema managers, which were either slipped in, or part of, the weekly film trade journals which were available to them by subscription but were not sold to the general public. The large size Trade advertisements are about the size of US half sheet posters and have a centre fold which is usually hard to discern when flat. Most were designed to be pulled out, and some were attached by staples. Most have the date in tiny letters in one of the top corners. The publishers own copies from the 1930’s were destroyed by fire and water damage during the Blitz and Wartime paper drives decimated those held by cinemas making them quite rare.

The Advertisement is in very good condition with one vertical centre fold with a 3 inch split from the bottom.