Minsky Family Pioneered Burlesque Broad Rise and Decline
New York text traces the Minsky family from a lower east side yard goods venture to theater and burlesque power. Billy Minsky transforms cheap acts into Broadway scale spectacle inspiring fans and rivals, while the era’s venues and personalities shaped the boom and eventual shifts in entertainment.
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George Eosis
New York
Minsky
Ming
Erthren
Lous
Lower East Side
Owith
Max D. Stever
Houston Street
Cup
Jofty Playhouse
Mary Pickford
Clara Kimball Young
van and Schenck
James Kirkwood
Fannie Brice
Leven
East Side
Papa Minsky
Billy
Legion
East
Brooklyn
Bridge Belt
George’ Jean
Nathan
Frank Crowlinshield
Earl Carroll
Flo Ziegfeld
Otto Kahn
Broadway
Prebert- Kay
Maron
Girls Do Work of Experts on Nautical Guide
A fragmentary note references a nautical almanac guide with editions from London and 1936. It mentions calculations and staff involvement in producing the almanac in former years, honoring the tradle guides and hand that rocks the boat metaphor.
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London
Moon Phases Calculations by Three Girls Cut Costs
Three girls completed the phases of the moon work in five months by tabulating every hour and every day up to the year 2000. They processed 90 million figure sets and will continue work to save training future workers. The project cost 7500 dollars, far less than the 30000 plus needed by older methods, and would have taken years.
School To Start If Epidemic Ended
New scarlet fever cases develop in Rockbridge district before Monday. School will reopen if epidemic ends, says health commissioner W B La cock. Closing was precautionary. mild outbreak had begun. No school this week.
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Rockbridge
W.B. Lacock
Bostonian recalls Dana's famous news item
Bostonian recalls Dana's famed news remark from 1871 in The New York Sun. The text notes the editor Charles A Dana, then 79, and references a visit to Lahville, a town of about 25 000 population, with fragmentary phrases about Mrs Williams shopping and a pigetty remark.
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Bostonian
Dana
Boston
API
Charles AL Dana
The
New ‘Yori Sun
Teporter
Lahvillé
Theidldsboro
Etty
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