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Noontime and bankers knew that the public was taking cash out of New York banks, savings banks in particular. A savings bank in Newark had already been besieged. Now in 42nd Street opposite Grand Central Station a crowd gathered in the magnificent Byzantine banking hall of the Bowery Savings Bank, largest private savings bank in the world, one of the oldest mutual savings banks in the U. S., famed for its conservatism and strength. Good natured but eager, bootblacks. Jewish matrons, silk-stockinged stenographers and shawled immigrants carried off cash from the paying windows. Three o'clock...
...they call it Two-Time Square, "the double cross roads of the world." Here is the locale, motif, and gospel of "42nd Street," intense, jazz-maddened moving picture of backstage life, now at the Metropolitan Theatre. The show is another "Broadway Melody" without as many song hits, perhaps, but certainly with better acting, ballet, and fiercer tempo...
...After the enormous reception accorded "Broadway Melody" producers shrewdly decided to reduce their allotments to song writers and corner the market in tap dancers and kick-in-the-pants comedians. The resultant decline in business almost sufficed to wreck America's greatest infant industry. Counter to this, however, "42nd Street" has at least one good song and a brilliant orchestra to play...
...Isham Memorial Organ is the gift of Ralph Isham '89, of Santa Barbara, California, in memory of his son, A. K. Isham '15, who served in the world war as a captain of Field Artillery in the 42nd Division...
...given by Ralph Isham '89, in memory of his son, A. K. Isham '15, who served in the World War as captain of the field artillery in the 42nd division. The instrument represents a return to traditional English and Continental design in that it is voiced as an ensemble rather than as an aggregation of solo effects. At one time the organ degenerated into a theatre instrument, but the Isham instrument is, to date, one of the most thorough-going attempts to treat the organ as an independent musical medium...