Word: firetraps
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Many plays achieve Broadway, but few have Broadway thrust upon them. Alfred Hayes's The Girl on the Via Flaminia was successful at Greenwich Village's Circle in the Square, when out of the blue the arena-type playhouse was closed as a firetrap. Finding no other Village theater available, the producers last week reluctantly moved The Girl to Broadway...
...people. Get all of the information [;you can] about matters of importance to the public, giving them all sides of the question." When more than 70 people died in a hotel fire and the other papers called it an unavoidable tragedy, the Journal said the hotel was a "known firetrap" and denounced its owners for "greed" and "criminal negligence." The words "liar," "jackass" and "public stench" were familiar epithets in the Journal. By 1915, Lute Nieman was describing Germany as an international menace and urging preparedness for war. In Milwaukee, where German was a second language to thousands of families...
Poverty hung heavily over the neighborhood in the Alliance's early days. Washing flapped in the breeze that blew between firetrap tenements. Men scrabbled for thin wages in the city's sweatshops. But at the Alliance, anything seemed possible. Even an art school flourished in its crowded classrooms. In 1915 Abbo Ostrowsky, an energetic young artist from Odessa, began the art instruction he continues today...
Dramatic Club hopes of holding parties again in its "Big Tree" workshop, condemned as a firetrap, revived yesterday when H.D.C. President Francis J. O'Neil, Jr. '55, suggested that building another door might lift...
Recently he found 14 mentally deficient children, wards of the city, tied with ropes around their necks in a firetrap farmhouse. The children were removed to a state school and to foster homes. Last month, when Selby learned that Philadelphia's summer music center, Robin Hood Dell, was close to bankruptcy, he raised $56,000 in 22 days...