Word: coney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skyscrapers, subways, slums and slicks, seven million people from the Bronx to Coney, that's the phenomenon people call New York City. It's a world within a nation, a monster cosmopolitanism which, like most great things, defies definition. Vinton Freedley, Jr. has written, and the Dramatic Club has produced a play about New York. They have not tried to define it, but they have, within the limits of stagecraft, tried to reproduce some of its many facets. To realize the ambitions ideal they set up for themselves, the Dramatic Club has used a cast of more than...
...Soviets jerked the anti-Nazi motion picture Professor Mamlock from daily showings at the Russian World's Fair Pavilion, substituted Lenin in 1917, blandly explained that this was a routine change of program. At Coney Island, Park Policeman Thomas O'Connor saw Mrs. Ray Brodsky sitting on a piece of paper. When he warned her this counted as littering the beach, she called him a "Hitler." Brooklyn Magistrate D. Joseph de Andrea dismissed the charge but warned Mrs. Brodsky against calling anyone "Hitler." Prison wardens in New York, who feed inmates 51 ounces of meat a week, observed...
...Only about 3,000,000 out-of-town patrons have visited the Fair. There they stayed an average seven hours, spent an average $2.06 apiece ($1.44 plus admission. Coney Island average...
Youngest of the young, and one of the most interesting, was twelve-year-old Alex Kozloff, a Brooklyn carpenter's son, who beamed beside three small bright oils. His Coney Island was a broad copy of pictures he had seen on Sunday trips to museums, but his uninhibited use of paint and his free brush were evident. Sea Beach, he says proudly, "is out of my head...
Rides. The Midway has a full Coney-Island quota of thrill machines-whizzing bobsled rides, stratoships, turtle chases, roller coasters. Dwarfing them all is Life Savers' 250-foot Parachute Jump. Using hoist cables, the Jump carries couples seated under big umbrellas to the top in 42 seconds, shoots them down in ten. In its first three weeks the Jump fetched 68,000 customers at 40? each, among them Actress Tallulah Bankhead, Attorney General Frank Murphy, Cinemactor Conrad Nagel (thrice), Admiral Byrd (thrice), Musicomedian Victor Moore ("It's too slow going up, too fast coming down"), Bullfighter Sidney Franklin...