File:Selwyn Theatre, West 42nd Street, Manhattan.jpg

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Description	English: Caption reads: "Selwyn Theatre, 229 West 42d Street, New York City" Credit reads (in part): "George Keister, Architect" White Studio signature in lower right The marquee side reads: "Jane Cowl in Information Please" The entrance lobby, in the office building shown, led to the theater, which is on 43rd Street. The office building was replaced by the New 42nd Street Building in 2001, and the renovated theater is today known as the American Airlines Theatre.
Date	Published February 1919. Depicted: October or November 1918. (Information, Please opened October 2 and closed November 9, 1918. Sources: "Jane Cowl in Quest of Information", The New York Times, October 3, 1918; "What News on the Rialto?" The New York Times, November 10, 1918, first paragraph)
Source	Architecture and Building Vol. 51 No. 2 (February 1919) Plate 36. Accompanying article, "The Selwyn Theatre", is on p. 15. Online at Google Books.
Author	George Keister, architecture. White Studio, photography.

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