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Evelyn Nesbit was set for a Broadway comeback this week. The famously fatal beauty, now 58 and a plump-faced grandmother, was to try her luck as a singer at a spot called Tony Pastor's Uptown...
...Dress rehearsals of leading concert musicians before their uptown appearances. The 6? programs are about the only thing the Alliance does not give away...
...socially unacceptable Fore River Shipyard in Quincy. (The episode is so elusively treated that a naive reader might conclude that she had been in naval intelligence ever since.) Then she moved to New York, married-a Yale man of good family working in a bank-lived in uptown Manhattan in a weird apartment, began to write magazine articles, and found a brief breathing space in life...
...criticize you on account of my wealth than will criticize me on account of your heresy?" Fosdick took the job, with four stipulations: 1) immersion was not to be required; 2) all believers in Jesus were to be acceptable as members; 3) a new, larger church would be built uptown; 4) the minister's salary was not to exceed...
...January night 50 years ago, way uptown at Broadway and 40th Street, there was opened a luxurious, "absolutely fireproof" theater, its facade all carved stone, its interior all red and gilt. On that evening in 1893 Manhattan did not realize that its great theater district of the future was taking root. The new Empire Theater seemed a rather ambitious venture, even for Producer Charles Frohman and his famous stock company. It was baptized with a melodrama laid in an Army post, called The Girl I Left Behind Me (by David Belasco and Franklyn Fyles). When the Empire celebrated its soth...