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Broadway Echoes and City Vignettes from a 1930s Page
A collage of New York cultural musings and portraits from 1930. Notes on actors Peggy Hoyt and Clifton Webb, a mandolin revival, and street life with Central Park contrasts to Rotten Row. Snippets on book publishing flaws, theater names, and a Dante-era superstition closing the page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincent Lopez
Frank Sullivan
Saratoga Springs
N.Y
Edgar Saltu
Mrs. Mund
Theodore Dreiser
Underworld
al Katz
Pike McDonald’s
Peggy Hoyt
High O’connell
Ben Holzman
Richard le Gallienne
Paris
Vitrol
Solemia
Clifton
Central Park
Duke Herrick