Automats, taxi dances, and vaudeville: excavating Manhattan's lost places of leisure
2010; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 47; Issue: 06 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5860/choice.47-3050
ISSN1943-5975
Autores Tópico(s)Theater, Performance, and Music History
ResumoList of Illustrations AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Chinatown, Chatham Square, and the Bowery 1 A Round for the Old Atlantic (The Atlantic Garden) 2 Chinatown Theater (The 1893 Chinese Theater) Part II. Union Square and the East Village 3 A Roof with a View (American Mutoscope Studio) 4 Caretakers of Second Avenue (Hebrew Actors' Union) Part III. The Tenderloin 5 If You Can Make 'Em Cry (Tin Pan Alley) 6 Tenderloin Winners and Losers (Shang Draper's Gambling House)Part IV. Harlem 7 A Theater of Our Own (The Lincoln Theater) 8 Rise and Fall of the Original Swing Street (West 133rd Street) Part V. Times Square 9 The Strike Invisible (Horn & Hardart's Original New York Automat) 10 Last Dance at the Orpheum (The Orpheum Dance Palace) 11 Nights of Gladness (Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe) Epilogue A Note on Sources NotesBibliographyIndex About the Author
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