Word: rialto
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...went happily down Broadway, repeating in every theater, the Rialto, the Tower, Loew's. Others stopped streetcars, pulled off zooters, Mexicans or just dark-complexioned males. On went the mob, ripping pants, beating the young civilians, into the Arcade, the Roxy, the Cameo, the Broadway, the Central and the New Million Dollar theaters. The mood of officialdom (the Shore Patrol, the Military Police, the city police, the sheriff's office) seemed complaisant...
...with a butterfly, usually about two inches across. Swiss-born Nat Karson uses an alp. At 29, Painter Karson is black-haired, intense, an art director of Manhattan's famed Radio City Music Hall. Last week a Karson mural was unveiled in the lobby of Manhattan's Rialto, the Music Hall of its day (1916), but for the last four years a Manhattan movie house specializing in horror pictures. (Harvardman Arthur L. Mayer, the Rialto's owner, calls himself "The Merchant of Menace...
...Karson splashed the Rialto's lobby with Frankenstein, Zombis, King Kong, a skeleton dangling from a scaffold, a ghoul sucking a lollipop. On his signature alp (about a foot high), by way of contrast, he put Laurel & Hardy. All are done with skilled caricature, are no screwier than the career of the young fellow who painted them. Son of a former Russian court painter, he came to the U. S. when he was four. At twelve he joined a Chicago little theatre as assistant to its art director...
...Broadway productions. Near tops in Broadway stage painting last season was Nat Karson's rapid-fire blend of Negro jazz and Japanese formalism in the sets of the Hot Mikado. His latest, Let's Go, opened last week at the International Casino, on the same night his Rialto murals were unveiled. But these are only side jobs...
...From the Rialto Theatre, where they are holding a convention, through Jackson Square to the spearheaded front fence of the White House, marched a mixed delegation of the Youth Committee Against War. Not waiting for police or Secret Service men to ask their business, or pausing to explain just what parts of President Roosevelt's program they considered provocative, the young men & women produced from their persons seven large cardboard placards which, hung in a row on the fence (see cut), spelled...