TOUGH to find vintage inscribed pencil signature on a 4x6-inch pale yellow autograph album page, acquired in-person at the Orpheum Theater in 1930 and decorated with a small magazine image. In fine condition for its age, with light creases and a notation by the original collector indicating that the actor was "very very nice." Gifted silent movie actor and director Lowell Sherman succumbed to double pneumonia, aged only 46 years, not long after having helmed the pre-code classic She Done Him Wrong (1933), starring Mae West.

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