Image: Massey-Abe-Lincoln-in-Illinois-1938

Description: Promotional photograph for the premiere of Robert E. Sherwood's play Abe Lincoln in Illinois, starring Raymond Massey Caption reads as follows: On October 15th at the Plymouth Theatre, the eminent group of playwrights known as the Playwrights Company will present their second offering of the season, Robert E. Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois, with Raymond Massey as a young Lincoln who wanted principally to be let alone, who was forced more and more by the pressure of circumstances into marriage with Mary Todd and the political battles that made him immortal.
Title: Massey-Abe-Lincoln-in-Illinois-1938
Credit: Stage magazine for October 1938, Volume 15, Number 13 (page 44)
Author: Stage Publishing Company, Inc., no photographer credited
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