Al Frueh (1880-1968) was an American cartoonist and caricaturist for The New Yorker magazine from 1925 to 1962. This print forms part of a portfolio of caricatures, Stage Folk: A Book of Caricatures by Frueh, published by Lieber & Lewis in 1922. It was exhibited at the Theatre Museum in Theatre Caricatures by Al Frueh: West End Meets Broadway, in 1990.

This print shows the American actress and singer Lillian Russell (1861-1922) in the revue Hokey Pokey, with lyrics by Edgar Smith and E. Ray Goetz, and music by John Stromberg, A. Baldwin Sloane and W.T. Francis, at the Broadway Theatre in New York in 1912. Russell first appeared on the London stage in July 1883 in Virginia and Paul, a comic opera by Edward Solomon and Henry Pottinger Stephens, at the Gaiety Theatre. The following year on 4th October 1884 she appeared in another comic opera by Edward Solomon with the libretto by James Mortimer, Polly, at the Novelty Theatre. This was followed by the opera Pocaontas at the Empire in New York in December 1884. Her next appearance in London would not be until September 1894 in The Queen of Brilliants, a comic opera by Brandon Thomas (adapted by Taube and Fuch from the German), at the Lyceum.