Original 1933 contract, 4 pp, 8.5 x 11, licensing the exclusive production rights for the 1932 hit musical, Fred Astaire's last Broadway show, which featured the hit song "Night and Day" in which Astaire danced with co-star Claire Luce. It was made into a musical film by RKO Radio Pictures in 1934, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and renamed The Gay Divorcee. Inscribed in ink at the head of brown integral folding wrappers from Richard J. Madden Play Company (No. 33 West 42nd St, New York City), "For M. Wats" and at the conclusion, "True Copy / R. J. Madden" beside the printed list of signatories (none of whom have signed this copy): Carl Strakosch, Samuel Hoffenstein, Dwight Taylor, Kenneth Webb, and Cole Porter. 


The agreement is between the writers of the musical and a producer in Denmark to produce the musical in other countries. It is 4 pages long and has a list of the principals on the last page. The agreement details the breakdown of payments, who is involved, and who owns the rights and is signed and identified in ink as a "true copy" by Richard J. Madden, who was the agent for Cole Porter and his partners.