HIGH STEPPERS 1926 Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, Dolores Del Rio TRADE ADVERT

Original U.S. 12 1/4 inch x 9 inch Trade Advertisement for the 1926 Edwin Carewe Drama HIGH STEPPERS (20TH CENTURY UNLIMITED), based on the novel by Phillip Gibbs and starring Lloyd Hughes, Mary Astor, Dolores Del Rio, Rita Carewe, John T. Murray, Edwards Davis, Alec B. Francis and Clarissa Selwynne.

Julian Perryam gets thrown out of Oxford University and returns to the family estate outside of London. He discovers that his sister and his mother are caught up in the "jazz" life and their father, who's the editor of a tabloid scandal rag, is too busy to notice. He also discovers that his sister is in love with the scoundrel son of his father's publisher, Victor Buckland. Learning that Buckland is actually an embezzler, Julian gets a job as a reporter on a muckraking publication and sets out to expose Buckland.

The ad art is by Samuel Cahan (1886 - 1974). Born in Kovno, Russia, now Lithuania, and emigrating to New York City in 1888. In 1898 he became an apprentice newspaper artist at “The New York World” working mainly as a courtroom sketch artist. In 1915 he studied at the Art Students League of New York. In 1917 he drew a posed portrait of Woodrow Wilson that became the official image of the presidential campaign. By 1925 he was fully competent in all media including painting, drawing, etching etc. During the 1930s his drawings appeared as chapter headings in the pulp magazine Argosy.

The Advertisement is in very good condition with 4 staple holes along one edge.