Friday, May 16, 2008

More gems from the golden age of advertising

This sophisticated advertisement for a melodrama playing at the System Theatre, now a souvenir shop kitty corner from Phillips Square, was published in a Montreal tabloid in October 1922. Here's a Morgan's-era picture of the System from about the sixties, when Leonard Cohen mentioned it in his novel, Beautiful Losers.

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