Word: rialto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city carried to its frenetic extreme: a few blocks dense with too many lights and too much action, a happy chaos of honky-tonk night life (the Florodora girls, Legs Diamond's Hotsy Totsy Club), theatrical bliss (Barrymore's Hamlet, the Marx Brothers) and the spontaneous razzmatazz of the rialto. There was a civic side as well: Times Square became the natural New York place for jubilation en masse, every New Year's Eve and every time America...
DIED. Arthur Mayer, 94, Harvard-educated movie maven and entrepreneur who was a leading publicist in Hollywood's early days, then became known in the 1930s as the "Merchant of Menace" for exhibiting lowbudget, moneymaking horror movies at the famous Rialto Theater in New York's Times Square and who also helped import such classic "art" films as Open City (1945), Paisan (1947) and The Bicycle Thief (1948); in New York City...