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Broadway Reflections and a Texas Electric Cure
Notes from New York in August 17th portrait a bustling city dawn and a panorama of theatre and film figures including Pauline Lord Edgar Selwyn and Vallee as well as the faded era of Oscars Hamnerstein and Ziegfeld. A Texas study proposes electrocution to curb alligator gars while the piece recounts showbusiness memories and a crowding metropolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jimmy Walker
Broadway
Count Salm
Pauline Lord
Caruso
West 47Th Street
Paul Whiteman
Janet Gaynor
Valentino
The
Colony
Waterloo
Ferdinand Pecora
Italy
Martin Conboy
Irena Hayes
Kansas City
Park Avenue
Chester Erskine
Charles Frohman
Billy Patterson
Dillinger
Edgar Selwyn
Ascot
Gallipolis
Lucius Boomer
Lucus Besbe
Gene Markey
Dean Harkey
John Mulholland
Vallee
Washington Bridge
A. E. Thomas
Bayard Velker
Paul, Armstrong
Eugene Walter
Clyde Fitch
George Broadhurst
Max Marcin
Eugene O'Neill
James Forbes
J. Hartley Manners
Noel Coward
Holland House
Fitch