Every Street Is Memory Lane to Veteran Manhattanite
George Ross recalls Manhattan landmarks tied to memory and celebrity. He visits places like Belasco’s 44th Street theater, the Egyptology wing of the Met, and the Provincetown Playhouse, linking spaces from the Beaux Arts to the Plaza with figures such as Van Cortlandt Park’s murder site, Rothstein, Hepburn, Woollcott, and Ziegfeld, illustrating how memory colors place.
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Memory Lane
George Ross
New York
Playhouse Alley
David Belasco
Metropolitan Museum
Provincetown Playhouse
Greenwhich Village
Eugene O'Neill
Beaux Arts
Upstaire
Texas Guinan
Larry Fay
45Th Street
Katharine Hepburn
Metropolitan
Plaza
Fifth Avenue
Washington Square Arch
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Central Park Reservoir
David Warfield
George M. Cohan
Bethel Barrymore
Beekman Place
Katharine Cornell
Alexander Woollcott
Warwick
Sixth Avenue
Flo Ziegfeld
Burlesque Stars Shape Jobs and Arts in Modern Show
New York profiles two leading star strippers Ann Corio and Gypsy Rose Lee who mix glamour with enterprise. Corio helps run the Apollo Burlesque circuit and advises on costumes while Lee elevates burlesque to legit stages, with Shubert offices backing her.
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George Ross
New York
Carl Hubbell
Giants
Star Flinger
Ann Corio
Apollo Burlesque Theater
Forty-Second Street
Gypsy Rose Lee
Minaky’s
Miss Corio
Ammett Callahan
The
Apollo
Miss
Miss Lee
Minsky’sa
Shubert
Proust
Picasso
Stravinsky
Mrs Simpson seeks divorce in Ipswich hearing
The slender royal companion enters divorce proceedings amid speculation about her relation to King Edward VIII. Justice Hawke will preside in Ipswich with a swift hearing likely under 10 minutes. The Simpsons are said to remain amicable as the monarch’s circle and Sandringham visits continue.
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Thelma Morgan
New York
Viscount Furness
Lady Furness
Mrs. Simpson
King Edward
Ipswich
Hawke
Simpson
London
Simpson, Spencer and Young
Edward
Sandringham
Simpsons
Family car built to order debut in Dodge models
C DeWitt Rogers Jr discusses the new 1937 Dodge in Larchmont New York praising its larger seating, roominess, and safety features. He predicts thousands will switch from current cars to Dodge.
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Vestris Cabbies
New York
Vestris Group
Vestria
Vestris
Larchmont
N. Y
C. DeWitt Rogers, Jr
Dodge
Burlesque Champion Targets Manhattan Nightlife
A renowned burlesque figure defended her troupe, claiming Manhattan night clubs show depraved decadence. She asserted no one molested her performers and warned she would close the scorned club if a troublemaker paid for it with a wrong move.
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Manhattan
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