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...other things, over the new-fangled hymns of Isaac Watts. So the anti-Watts faction set up their own church in Cedar Street. Successively locating in Duane Street and lower Fifth Avenue, the congregation in 1875 built a big, brownstone Gothic church which still stands at Fifth Avenue and 55th Street among clubs, hotels and big shops. Associated at one time or another with such old New York names as Auchincloss, Sloane, Leeds, Agnew, Gracie, Varick and Aspinwall, the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church is famed for its sloping auditorium, its fine acoustics, its old gas brackets and reflectors. Instrumental...
...just emerging from the whiskers of the Bret Harte era, enthusiastic citizens dug deep into their pokes to establish the San Francisco Art Association. One of the association's major objects was to "maintain a permanent museum of fine arts." Last week S. F. A. A. held its 55th annual exhibition, and fulfilled its promise. After 61 years the San Francisco Art Museum opened with 14 exhibition galleries and a handsome lady director brought on from Cincinnati...
Corsets: New Style. The most historic corset year of modern times was 1931. On Oct. 1 Warner Bros., which was celebrating its 55th year, launched an advertising campaign featuring the "Youthlastic" corset which would stretch two ways and was made of Lastex. Next day, Oct. 2, the famed firm of Kops & Co. exhibited a similar garment. Few months later a third company, H. & W., brought forth another Lastex corset. Each had worked independently during the summer without knowing what the others were doing. But the combined effect was revolutionary...
...Yorkers last week were discovering a new place to have fun at night, the like of which had not been seen since the days (1928-29) when Author Christopher Morley was producing old melodramas on his "Seacoast of Bohemia" (Hoboken). In an old church on Manhattan's East 55th Street, last occupied by a congregation of Holy Rollers, a co-operative group of actors was presenting The Drunkard, or The Fallen Saved...
...drinks and be-merries does the American Music Hall surpass the old Morley productions (which had no tables and obliged the patrons to step down the street for their beer), but its actors for the most part refrain from the broad clowning which evoked lowgrade bellows in Hoboken. On 55th Street one is supposed to be amused gently by the spectacle of a play faithfully produced in the manner of 1843, when Phineas Taylor Barnum first presented it, and people wept for the young wife (Dortha Duckworth) when her handsome husband (Hal Conklin) took to drink, rejoiced when good Banker...