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...great "temple of art," having been sold to a cigar store corporation, will eventually be turned into a five-and-ten-cent store. Aeolian Hall, Manhattan, bought two weeks ago by the Schulte Cigar Stores for $6,000,000 (TIME, Aug. 11), has been leased to the Woolworth Co. for a term of 63 years. Says the official announcement...
...Schulte Cigar Stores Co., runner-up of the omnipresent, ubiquitous United chain, has invaded the musical field. It has bought Aeolian Hall, Manhattan's most delightful first-rank concert auditorium. With the hall itself goes the entire 17-story skyscraper structure, extending clear across from 42nd to 43rd Street, complete with pipe organ, radio station and numerous offices for concert managers, retired business men who wish to retain dignified New York business offices, and Christian Science practitioners...
...Aeolian Co., however, will remain in charge of the site for five additional years, until May 1, 1929. What will happen then, no one knows . . . one may imagine a super-cigar store...
...Down came his chair, out came the butt of his cigar...
Nineteenth Century atmosphere−complete with cigar-chewing "house manager," candle footlights, handbill including an original notice by Dickens−is built up to give the audience a sense of superiority that enables it to laugh not only at the play but at the whole age which took such plays seriously...