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Notable Celebrities Seen on New York Streets
L. L. Stevenson catalogs a late 1930s parade of public figures and entertainers in Manhattan. Al Smith, Horace Heidt, Don Voorhees, Peter Arno, Lyn Murray, Edward Johnson, Basil Ruysdael, Tommy Manville, Ted Collins, and others are photographed or observed at theaters, shops, and city corners, with light anecdotes about their personalities and moments.
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L. L. Stevenson
al Smith
Hale
Hearty
Gray
Forty-fifth Street
Horace Heidt
Hellzapoppin” Olson
Seventh Avenue
Don Voorhees
Forty-eighth Street
Voorhees
Peter Arno
Lyn Murray
Moses
Jenny Lind
Lyn
Fifty-seventh Street
Broadway
Jean Ellington
Wary Canary
Edward Johnson
Metropolitan Impresario
Basil Ruysdael
Ruysdael
Metropolitan Opera Company
Hereward Carrington
Claudia Morgan
Ralph
Monty
Wooley
Central Park
Miss Morgan
Olga Badanova