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...smiled just then, but fellow actors generally like Bobby Morse too-when they are not working too close to him. He is more Penrod than Sammy Glick. Up and down the Rialto, he first-names doormen and kisses headwaiters in theatrical hangouts. He even kisses Producer David Merrick. He has jumped up from a restaurant table to blaze away at imaginary badmen with an imaginary six-shooter. On one memorable occasion he turned a chocolate mousse upside down on his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: I Believe in You | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...best-known flophouse, the Crawford, has burned down, and the Old Howard is dead, which leaves nothing but two unappealing (and expensive) "nightclubs", sundry pinball arcades, and an all night movie house called the Rialto...

Author: By Rober W. Gordon, | Title: Boston: Unchanging Evil Spinster | 7/5/1960 | See Source »

...many sailors, and then one Thursday night the Crawford House burned down, and Boston lost its best-known flop-house. Now the Old Howard has shut down, where Jenny Lind once sang and Rose La Rose more recently appeared. Boston still has an all-night movie house, the Rialto, which opens and shuts sporadically on Bowdoin Square...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Boston: Walk All Over | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...many sailors, and then one Thursday night the Crawford House burned down, and Boston lost its best known flop house. Now the Old Howard has shut down, where Jenny Lind once sang and Rose La Rose more recently appeared. Boston still has an all night movie house, the Rialto Theatre, which opens and shuts sporadically on Bowdoin Square...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Boston: Pedestrian Impressions | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

Upstairs in the same building is the Calvary Rescue Mission. The Mission does its best as a refuge, but it can't compete with the Rialto by staying open all day and night. Consequently most people with nowhere to go end up at the Rialto, which seldom turns away a man who has a quarter...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: Saturday Night in Scollay Square: Burlies, Girlies, Bars, and Bums | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

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