1920 theater program with an ad for Lady Lucy Duff Gordon's dress shop, Lucile Ltd.

theater program

A program from the June 7, 1920 performance of a play called Lightnin' at the Gaiety Theater in New York. It has many interesting ads, including one for Lucile Ltd., the company owned by TITANIC survivor Lady Lucy Duff Gordon, on page 30. The cover art on the program is by noted magazine artist F. Earl Christy. The play Lightnin' was a successful and long-running Broadway comedy, described as "A Live Wire American Comedy." Lady Lucy Duf Gordon became a successful and glamorous couturier before marrying her aristocrat husband, Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon, and her diaphanous, slightly racy dresses and lingerie were very popular on both sides of the Atlantic. After they survived the TITANIC disaster, her husband was criticized for getting in a boat when they were intended for women and children first, and there were also allegations that he bribed the sailor in charge of their half-empty boat not to go back for more survivors.